James A. Garfield Short Quotes

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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.

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I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.

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I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.

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I would rather be defeated than make capital out of my religion.

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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

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The lesson of History is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

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Fellow-citizens: God reigns, and the Government at Washington lives!

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My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it?

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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

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The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

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If hard work is not another name for talent, it is the best possible substitute for it.

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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

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I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

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I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

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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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The possession of great powers, no doubt, carries with it a contempt for mere external show.

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The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

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Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

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There never can be a convention... that shall bind my vote against my will on any question whatever.

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No American has carried greater fame out of the White House than this silent man who leaves it today.

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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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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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Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

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The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

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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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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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We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

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