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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
Politician
Statesperson
James Abram Garfield
James Garfield
J. A. Garfield
J. Garfield
President Garfield
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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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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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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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Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
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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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Suicide is not a remedy
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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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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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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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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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For love of country, they accepted death.
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The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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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.
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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.
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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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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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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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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.
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