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By James Garfield
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
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- Letter of Acceptance, July 12, 1880 · Letter of Acceptance, p. 783
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- Internet Archive (scan of The Works of James Abram Garfield, vol. II, ed. Burke A. Hinsdale, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883, the original edition)
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From James A. Garfield's letter accepting the Republican nomination for President, dated Mentor, Ohio, July 12, 1880. He wrote it as the candidate, before he became President. The text is from the 1883 edition of his collected works.