President garfield quotes about nation
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Manly Quotes from President James A. Garfield
The year is 1881. The civil war has ended, but those fortunate enough to have lived through the battle still carry the scars, quite literally the lead and shrapnel, and families still mourn their losses on both sides. Lincoln has been assassinated, slavery abolished, and three presidents have since carried the weight of a nation. James A. Garfield had no ambition of becoming America’s 20th president, but was unanimously elected to run as the Republican candidate after giving an inspiring speech in support of the would-be nominee.
Garfield’s presidency lasted only 200 days, 80 of which he fought heroically in his bed attempting to recover from an assassin’s bullet, shot into his back and resting behind his pancreas. He died not from the bullet wound though, but of heart failure, caused by massive infection due to the doctors of that day continued and crude means of treatment.
Though his life was cut short, he left an incredible legacy
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James A. Garfield
James Abram Garfield (19 November1831 – 19 September1881) was the 20th president of the United States of America in 1881, and the second U.S. president to be assassinated. His term was the second shortest in U.S. history, after William Henry Harrison's. Holding office from March to September of 1881, President Garfield was in office for a total of just six months and fifteen days. A Republican, he supported civil rights and freedoms for African Americans.
Quotes
[edit]- I would rather be beaten in Right than succeed in Wrong.
- Maxims of James Abram Garfield (1880), compiled bygd William Ralston Balch, p. 1
- Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself,— that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
- Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine ti
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Inaugural Address
Fellow-Citizens:
We stand to-day upon an eminence which overlooks a hundred years of national life--a century crowded with perils, but crowned with the triumphs of liberty and law. Before continuing the onward march let us pause on this height for a moment to strengthen our faith and renew our hope by a glance at the pathway along which our people have traveled.
It is now three days more than a hundred years since the adoption of the first written constitution of the United States--the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. The new Republic was then beset with danger on every hand. It had not conquered a place in the family of nations. The decisive battle of the war for independence, whose centennial anniversary will soon be gratefully celebrated at Yorktown, had not yet been fought. The colonists were struggling not only against the armies of a great nation, but against the settled opinions of mankind; for the world did not then believe that the supreme