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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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Right reason is stronger than force.
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Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.
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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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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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For love of country, they accepted death.
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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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Suicide is not a remedy
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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field wherever a mine yields its treasure wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.
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It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.
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Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.
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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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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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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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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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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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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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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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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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