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James A. Garfield

James A. Garfield

James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) served as the 20th President of the United States (1881), after completing nine consecutive terms in the U.S.

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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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
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He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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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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