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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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
James Garfield
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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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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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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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Right reason is stronger than force.
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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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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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The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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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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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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For love of country, they accepted death.
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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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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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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
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If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
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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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A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.
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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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The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
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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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