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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.
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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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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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 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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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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To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.
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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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Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
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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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Right reason is stronger than force.
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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
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The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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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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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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Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.
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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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