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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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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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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.
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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.
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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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The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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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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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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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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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.
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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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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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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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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
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For love of country, they accepted death.
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