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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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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It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.
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Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field wherever a mine yields its treasure wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.
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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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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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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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Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.
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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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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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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
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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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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.
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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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Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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