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Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated them.
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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Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
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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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I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
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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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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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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 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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Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.
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I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
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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 nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.
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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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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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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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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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We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
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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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If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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