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For love of country, they accepted death.
James A. Garfield
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James A. Garfield
Age: 49 †
Born: 1831
Born: November 19
Died: 1881
Died: September 19
20Th U.S. President
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James Abram Garfield
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Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.
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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
James A. Garfield
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.
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Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.
James A. Garfield
There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.
James A. Garfield
Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
James A. Garfield
At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.
James A. Garfield
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
James A. Garfield
The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
James A. Garfield
Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James A. Garfield
When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.
James A. Garfield
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.
James A. Garfield
We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.
James A. Garfield
But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.
James A. Garfield
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
James A. Garfield
