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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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Right reason is stronger than force.
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The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
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We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.
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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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Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.
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Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated them.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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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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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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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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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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