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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
J. Garfield
President Garfield
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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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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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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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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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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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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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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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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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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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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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The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.
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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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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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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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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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