"All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people."
-James A. Garfield
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.“
-James A. Garfield
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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."
-James A. Garfield
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"If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it."
-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."
-James A. Garfield
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"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation."
-James A. Garfield
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"Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it."
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