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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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Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
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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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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
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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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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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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
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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 separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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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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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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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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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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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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Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
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Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated them.
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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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