More from James A. Garfield

  1. 'Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.... And when you realize the entire …
  2. Nothing touches my heart more quickly than a tribute of honor to a great and noble character; but as I sat in my seat and witnessed this de…
  3. Garfield: 'Old boy! Do you think my name will have a place in human history?' Rockwell: 'Yes, a grand one, but a grander one in human heart…
  4. Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the …
  5. Strangulatus pro republica.
  6. Not in Chicago, in the heat of June, but at the ballot-boxes of the Republic, in the quiet of November, after the silence of deliberate jud…
  7. The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
  8. Twenty-five years ago this Republic was bearing and wearing a triple chain of bondage. Long familiarity with traffic in the bodies and soul…

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