The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
– James A. Garfield
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- I’ve have had many troubles in my life but the worst of them never came. – James A. Garfield
- For love of country they accepted death. – James A. Garfield
- What experience and history teach is this that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles. – George Wilhelm Hegel
- What experience and history teach is this that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles. – George Wilhelm Hegel
- Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. – James A. Garfield
- Eternity alone can reveal to the human race its debt of gratitude to the peerless and immortal name of Washington. – James A. Garfield
- Well behaved women rarely make history. – Marilyn Monroe
- Well behaved women rarely make history. – Laurel Thatcher
- I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it’s the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you’re home and dry. – Natalie Dormer
- If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. – James A. Garfield