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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated them.
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I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
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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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Suicide is not a remedy
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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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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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It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.
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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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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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Right reason is stronger than force.
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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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