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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
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James A. Garfield
Age: 49 †
Born: 1831
Born: November 19
Died: 1881
Died: September 19
20Th U.S. President
Lawyer
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James Abram Garfield
James Garfield
J. A. Garfield
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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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We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.
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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 believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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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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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.
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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
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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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If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
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Battles are never the end of war for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.
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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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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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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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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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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.
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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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History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
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