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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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The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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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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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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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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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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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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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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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
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At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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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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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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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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A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.
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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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