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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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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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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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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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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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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.
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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.
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The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
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Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field wherever a mine yields its treasure wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.
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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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We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
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Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.
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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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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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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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