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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
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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
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To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.
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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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Right reason is stronger than force.
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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 lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
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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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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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Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
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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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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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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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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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Suicide is not a remedy
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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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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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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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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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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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