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The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
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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Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
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Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.
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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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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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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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[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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Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.
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The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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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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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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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 ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
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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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Right reason is stronger than force.
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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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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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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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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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The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
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Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated them.
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