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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
J. Garfield
President Garfield
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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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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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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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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.
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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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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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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
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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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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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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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History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
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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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Suicide is not a remedy
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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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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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