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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.
James A. Garfield
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James A. Garfield
Age: 49 †
Born: 1831
Born: November 19
Died: 1881
Died: September 19
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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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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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