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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
Lawyer
Military Officer
Politician
Statesperson
James Abram Garfield
James Garfield
J. A. Garfield
J. Garfield
President Garfield
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Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.
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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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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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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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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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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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The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
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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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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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If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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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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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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