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The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
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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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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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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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
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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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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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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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Suicide is not a remedy
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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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When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.
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For love of country, they accepted death.
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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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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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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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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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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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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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