All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

James A. Garfield
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  1. I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

  2. It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

  3. If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

  4. Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

  5. Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.

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