"In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ... not any ecclesiastical organization can be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the national government."

-- James A. Garfield

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“It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen the words you belt out in private, the rythms you can dance to like a fool.”
“What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.”
“Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.”
“I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.”
“The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species”

Source : Johann Gottfried Herder (1800). “Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man”, p.222
“I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be beautiful. Beauty is its function.”
“I'm too fiscally conservative for the Democrats and too socially liberal for the Republicans, like 75% of the American people.”
“There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet”

Source : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. May 30, 2002.

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