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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
20Th U.S. President
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James Abram Garfield
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Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated them.
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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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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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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
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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.
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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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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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To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.
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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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But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.
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I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
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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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