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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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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James Abram Garfield
James Garfield
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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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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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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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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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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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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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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 would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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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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If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for 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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A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.
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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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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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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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We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
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