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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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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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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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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.
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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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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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