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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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Suicide
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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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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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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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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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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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We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.
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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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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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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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The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.
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No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.
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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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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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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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