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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
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James Abram Garfield
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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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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 would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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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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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.
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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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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 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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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.
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The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
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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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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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For love of country, they accepted death.
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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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But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.
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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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