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Right reason is stronger than force.
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
Lawyer
Military Officer
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James Abram Garfield
James Garfield
J. A. Garfield
J. Garfield
President Garfield
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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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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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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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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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History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
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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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Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind 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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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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Suicide is not a remedy
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We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.
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No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.
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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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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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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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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.
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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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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[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
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