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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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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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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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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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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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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
James A. Garfield
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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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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[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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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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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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I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
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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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History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
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No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.
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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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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
James A. Garfield
If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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