"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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"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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"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."
-James A. Garfield
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"Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity."
-Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
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"A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one."
-Lord John Russell
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"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means."
-Francis Hutcheson
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"This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will."
-Stanford Moore
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"I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom."
-Nina Totenberg
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"The result showed the wisdom of your orders."
-John Bigelow
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