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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
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When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.
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I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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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 believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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Suicide is not a remedy
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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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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The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.
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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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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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The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
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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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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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