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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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
Lawyer
Military Officer
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Statesperson
James Abram Garfield
James Garfield
J. A. Garfield
J. Garfield
President Garfield
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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
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
James A. Garfield
For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.
James A. Garfield
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield
Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated them.
James A. Garfield
Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.
James A. Garfield
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.
James A. Garfield
History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
James A. Garfield
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.
James A. Garfield
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
James A. Garfield
We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
James A. Garfield
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
James A. Garfield
The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
James A. Garfield
The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
James A. Garfield
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.
James A. Garfield
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
James A. Garfield
The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.
James A. Garfield
Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
James A. Garfield
There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.
James A. Garfield
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.
James A. Garfield
