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History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
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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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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We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.
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Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
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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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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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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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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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Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
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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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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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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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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for 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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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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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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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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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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