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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
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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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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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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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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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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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If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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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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Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.
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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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The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
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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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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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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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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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Suicide is not a remedy
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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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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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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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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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