Quotes by James A. Garfield

James A. Garfield's insights on:

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For mere vengeance, I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for the security of the future, I would do everything.
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For love of country they accepted death.
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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
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Man can not live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.
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Men cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.
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For love of country, they accepted death.
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We do not know one promise these men made, one pledge they gave, one word they spoke; but we do know they summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtues of men and citizens. For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made.
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A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
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I am a poor hater.
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Swift defined observation to be an old man’s memory.
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