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James A. Garfield

20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881)

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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

– James A. Garfield

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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.

– James A. Garfield

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It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

– James A. Garfield

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The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.

– James A. Garfield

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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

– James A. Garfield

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..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

– James A. Garfield

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

– James A. Garfield

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Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.

– James A. Garfield

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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 chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.

– James A. Garfield

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

– James A. Garfield

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

– James A. Garfield

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