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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
Politician
Statesperson
James Abram Garfield
James Garfield
J. A. Garfield
J. Garfield
President Garfield
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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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There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.
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The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.
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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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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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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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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.
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Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated them.
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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
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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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We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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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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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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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.
James A. Garfield
Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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