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Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
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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We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.
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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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Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
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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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