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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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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 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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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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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
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Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated them.
James A. Garfield
We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
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If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
James A. Garfield
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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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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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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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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Suicide is not a remedy
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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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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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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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The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
James A. Garfield
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.
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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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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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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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