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It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits 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 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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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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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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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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Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
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There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.
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For love of country, they accepted death.
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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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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
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At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.
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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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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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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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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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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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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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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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I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning it is best not to worry about either.
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