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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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
J. A. Garfield
J. Garfield
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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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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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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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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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[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
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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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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.
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Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.
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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
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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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The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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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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History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
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Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
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