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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
20Th U.S. President
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James Abram Garfield
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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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History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
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The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.
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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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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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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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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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I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
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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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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
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For love of country, they accepted death.
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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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At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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