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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 must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.
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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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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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Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.
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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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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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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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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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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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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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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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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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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
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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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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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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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