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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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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I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning it is best not to worry about either.
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Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
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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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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.
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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
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For love of country, they accepted death.
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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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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.
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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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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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Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.
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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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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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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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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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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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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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