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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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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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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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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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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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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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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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Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
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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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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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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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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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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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