"Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much."
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James A. Garfield, in The Diary of James A. Garfield : 1875-1877 (1983), edited by Harry James Brown, Frederick D. Williams. p. 396
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