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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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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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Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field wherever a mine yields its treasure wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.
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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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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.
James A. Garfield
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
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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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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated them.
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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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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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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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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
James A. Garfield
Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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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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Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.
James A. Garfield
