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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
James Garfield
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
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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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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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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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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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For love of country, they accepted death.
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The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
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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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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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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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No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.
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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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We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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