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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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Statesperson
James Abram Garfield
James Garfield
J. A. Garfield
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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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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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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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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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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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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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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Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated them.
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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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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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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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Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
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The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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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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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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