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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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
Lawyer
Military Officer
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James Abram Garfield
James Garfield
J. A. Garfield
J. Garfield
President Garfield
Liberty
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
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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.
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Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.
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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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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
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