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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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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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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
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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.
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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
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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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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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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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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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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
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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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For love of country, they accepted death.
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The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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