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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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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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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For love of country, they accepted death.
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Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.
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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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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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The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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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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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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