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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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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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The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
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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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Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field wherever a mine yields its treasure wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.
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Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.
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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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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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Battles are never the end of war for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.
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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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If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'
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The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
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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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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.
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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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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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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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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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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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