James A. Garfield Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.”
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“Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. . . . If the next centennial does not find us a great nation . . . it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.”
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“Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”
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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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“If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.”
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“The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.”
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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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“I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.”
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“The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.”
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“The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.”
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“For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.”
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“If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.”
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“He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.”
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“Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.”
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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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“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
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“A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.”
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“If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.”
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“A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.”
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“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.”
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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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“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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“I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.”
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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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“For the love of country they accepted death.”
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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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“Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.”
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“I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.”
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