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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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You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.
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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
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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.
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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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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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