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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.
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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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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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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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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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'
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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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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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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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For love of country, they accepted death.
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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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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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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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Right reason is stronger than force.
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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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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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