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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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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.
James A. Garfield
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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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.
James A. Garfield
In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
James A. Garfield
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
James A. Garfield
Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.
James A. Garfield
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.
James A. Garfield
The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
James A. Garfield
Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
James A. Garfield
Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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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.
James A. Garfield
We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.
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Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.
James A. Garfield
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
James A. Garfield
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.
James A. Garfield
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.'
James A. Garfield
If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
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