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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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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.
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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
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Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.
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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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I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning it is best not to worry about either.
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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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