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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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I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
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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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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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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.
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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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For love of country, they accepted death.
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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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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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Right reason is stronger than force.
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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.
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