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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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The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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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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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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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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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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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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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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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 ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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Suicide is not a remedy
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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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