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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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To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.
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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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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need 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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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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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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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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The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.
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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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History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
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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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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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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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Battles are never the end of war for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.
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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
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For love of country, they accepted death.
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