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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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The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.
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A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.
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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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But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.
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For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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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.
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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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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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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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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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I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.
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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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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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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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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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The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
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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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