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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
James Garfield
J. A. Garfield
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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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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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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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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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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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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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The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
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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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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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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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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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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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Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
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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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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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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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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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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
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