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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.
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 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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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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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 civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
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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.
James A. Garfield
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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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.
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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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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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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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Right reason is stronger than force.
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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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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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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
James A. Garfield
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.
James A. Garfield
The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
James A. Garfield
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
James A. Garfield
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.
James A. Garfield
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
James A. Garfield
