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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
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Military Officer
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James Abram Garfield
James Garfield
J. A. Garfield
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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.
James A. Garfield
The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.
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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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Battles are never the end of war for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.
James A. Garfield
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
James A. Garfield
I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'
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I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
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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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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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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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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
James A. Garfield
It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.
James A. Garfield
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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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
James A. Garfield
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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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
James A. Garfield
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.
James A. Garfield
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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