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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
Politician
Statesperson
James Abram Garfield
James Garfield
J. A. Garfield
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President Garfield
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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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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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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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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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We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.
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