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I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.
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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Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.
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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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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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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
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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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Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
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Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated them.
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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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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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Battles are never the end of war for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.
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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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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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The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation 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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We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
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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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