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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
Lawyer
Military Officer
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Statesperson
James Abram Garfield
James Garfield
J. A. Garfield
J. Garfield
President Garfield
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For love of country, they accepted death.
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There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.
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The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.
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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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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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Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated them.
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The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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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.
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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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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Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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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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