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[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
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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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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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The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.
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I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'
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We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.
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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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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
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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.
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The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
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Battles are never the end of war for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.
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Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.
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Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
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You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
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