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The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
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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Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.
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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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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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We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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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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