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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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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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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When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.
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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 right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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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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I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
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For love of country, they accepted death.
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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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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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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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Battles are never the end of war for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.
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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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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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It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.
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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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The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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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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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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