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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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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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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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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.
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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
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Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
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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.
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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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 found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
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For love of country, they accepted death.
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