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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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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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Right reason is stronger than force.
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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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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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'
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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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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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Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.
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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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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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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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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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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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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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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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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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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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