Education Quote by James A. Garfield

“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.”

James A. Garfield

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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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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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The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains…

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Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

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There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of…

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

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Whomsoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce and when you realize that the entire…

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“Jika kerut merut mesti tertera di dahi kita, biarlah mereka tidak tertera di hati kita. Jiwa kita jangan pernah menjadi tua.”

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

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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

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Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is…

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

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“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…

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If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

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