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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.
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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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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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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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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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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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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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.
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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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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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The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
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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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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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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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Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.
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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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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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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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History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
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We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.
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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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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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