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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
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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.
James A. Garfield
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 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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The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
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The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.
James A. Garfield
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 would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.
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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.
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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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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation 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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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.
James A. Garfield
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
James A. Garfield
Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
James A. Garfield
