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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 sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.
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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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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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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.
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I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
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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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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 believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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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.
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If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.
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Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field wherever a mine yields its treasure wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.
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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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