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• Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

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  Ignorance, Dark, Light

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1”, p.453, Best Books on

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• The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.

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  Atheism, Church, Taxation

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• Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

  James A. Garfield

  Character, Pride, May

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1”, p.593, Best Books on

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• Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.

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  Science, Government, Law

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1”, p.455, Best Books on

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• There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.

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  Heart, Men, Heaven

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 310, 1895.

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• Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

  James A. Garfield

  Memories, Men, Old Man

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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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  Believe, Order, Cosmos

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1”, p.453, Best Books on

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• In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen, to prohibit within its jurisdiction all criminal practices ... Nor can any ecclesiastical organization be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the National Government.

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  Religious, Government, Organization

  "Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States".

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• When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.

  James A. Garfield

  Spring, Artist, Rose

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• A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

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  Pride, Noble, Earth

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1”, p.326, Best Books on

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• They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

  James A. Garfield

  Patriotic, Joints, Ruts

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• When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

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  Presidential, Shadow, Election

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• Tortured for the Republic.

  James A. Garfield

  Republic, Last Words

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• The prosperity which now prevails is without parallel in our history. Fruitful seasons have done much to secure it, but they have not done all. The preservation of the public credit and the resumption of specie payments, so successfully attained by the Administration of my predecessors, have enabled our people to secure the blessings which the seasons brought.

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  Money, Blessing, People

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• A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.

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  War, Fate, Jewels

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1”, p.29, Best Books on

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• To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

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  Powerful, Ambition, Mean

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• The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

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  Divorce, Church, States

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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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  College, Students, Ends

  Remark at Alumni Dinner in Delmonico's Restaurant, New York, December 28, 1871.

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• The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

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  Hippie, Law, Bases

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2”, p.794, Best Books on

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• I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.

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  Moving, Science, Men

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.777, Best Books on

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