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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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If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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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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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
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Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
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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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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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For love of country, they accepted death.
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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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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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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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Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
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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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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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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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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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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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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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