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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.

~James A. Garfield

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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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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

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Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

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A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

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Right reason is stronger than force.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: November 19th, 1831

Died: September 19th, 1881

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