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We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
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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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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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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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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