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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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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
Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated them.
James A. Garfield
The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.
James A. Garfield
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
James A. Garfield
Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
James A. Garfield
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
James A. Garfield
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
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
James A. Garfield
Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
James A. Garfield
I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
James A. Garfield
Right reason is stronger than force.
James A. Garfield
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield
Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
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.
James A. Garfield
Suicide is not a remedy
James A. Garfield
We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.
James A. Garfield
Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
James A. Garfield
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
James A. Garfield
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
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
