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Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.
James A. Garfield
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James A. Garfield
Age: 49 †
Born: 1831
Born: November 19
Died: 1881
Died: September 19
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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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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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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
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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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I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
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