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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
Lawyer
Military Officer
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Statesperson
James Abram Garfield
James Garfield
J. A. Garfield
J. Garfield
President Garfield
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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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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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Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated them.
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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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[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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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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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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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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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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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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For love of country, they accepted death.
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If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
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We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
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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 the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.
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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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