Destiny Of The Republic: A Tale Of Madness, Medicine And The Murder Of A President Quotes
"Nothing touches my heart more quickly than a tribute of honor to a great and noble character."
"The calm level of the sea, from which all heights and depths are measured."
"Let us never praise poverty, for a child at least."
"God prepares the verdict which will determine the wisdom of our work tonight."
"It is worth some trouble to be able to seal up an amputation, an exsection, or a large wound, with the absolute certainty that no evil effects will follow."
"I am trying to see through it the deep meaning and lesson of this death."
"God help me to use the heavy lesson for the good of those of us who remain."
"Providence, therefore, thinks it worth saving."
"Theologians in all ages have looked out admiringly upon the material universe and demonstrated the power, wisdom, and goodness of God."
"Monogamous love was not only selfish but 'unhealthy and pernicious.'"
"Intercourse, up to the very moment of emission, is voluntary, entirely under the control of the moral faculty, and can be stopped at any point."
"If you stay near the shore, you’ll be fine. It’s only when you row too near a waterfall that you find yourself in danger."
"You prayed God to send you help, and he has sent me."
"I am working for the Lord and the Lord took care of me, and I was not to find fault with the way he took care of me."
"The emancipated race has already made remarkable progress."
"It is a pity that I have so little time to devote to my children."
"Assassination can no more be guarded against than death by lightning, and it is best not to worry about either."
"Every attempt, therefore, to flatter them, or to make more of them than they deserve, I shall do all I can to prevent, and to arm them against."
"These people would take my very brains, flesh and blood if they could."
"I would rather be beaten in Right than succeed in Wrong." - JAMES A. GARFIELD
"History is but the unrolled scroll of Prophecy." - JAMES A. GARFIELD
"There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the veil that separates mortals and immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear their breathings and feel the pulsations of the heart of the infinite." - JAMES A. GARFIELD
"If there be one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire… it is a brave man." - JAMES A. GARFIELD
"It is one of the precious mysteries of sorrow that it finds solace in unselfish thought." - JAMES A. GARFIELD
"THE PRESIDENT WISHES ME TO SAY TO YOU FROM HIM THAT HE HAS BEEN SERIOUSLY HURT—HOW SERIOUSLY HE CANNOT YET SAY. HE IS HIMSELF AND HOPES YOU WILL COME TO HIM SOON. HE SENDS HIS LOVE TO YOU."
"He obeys me to the letter in everything, and he never makes any complaints about my orders."
"I am here to nurse you back to life. Please do not speak again of death."
"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old."
"There is no horizontal Stratification of society in this country like the rocks in the earth, that hold one class down below forevermore, and let another come to the surface to stay there forever."
"I love to believe that no heroic sacrifice is ever lost, that the characters of men are moulded and inspired by what their fathers have done."
"Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool."
"We should do nothing for revenge… Nothing for the past."
"Strangulatus pro Republica—Tortured for the Republic."
"But I move the diaphragm every time I breathe."
"If you keep my mouth filled with ice I will keep quiet."
"Hope and confidence have taken the place of alarm and doubt."
"He is feverish and quite restless, and has vomited three times this morning."
"Every crank in the country seemed to think himself called upon to offer to cure the president."
"All the noble aspirations of my lamented predecessor which found expression in his life."
"I wonder if all this fight against death is worth the little pinch of life I will get anyway."
"The sight of the ocean brings rest and peace."
"It was a splendid thing—a noble thing. Now, I want them to give me some money."
"A man may become profoundly depraved and degraded by mental habits and yet not be insane. It is only depravity."
"I shot the President on the second of July. I would not do it again for a million dollars, with the mind I have got now."
"Hanging is too good for you, you stinking cuss. You ought to be burned alive and let rot. You savage cannibal dog."
"My blood be on the head of the jury, don't you forget it."
"I am willing to DIE for my inspiration, but it will make a terrible reckoning for you and this nation."
"He was brain sick, deluded, crazy; forgive him, even as Christ shall forgive us all."
"I’m fully resigned. God has smoothed over the road to glory which I will travel tomorrow."
"I am going to the Lordy, I am so glad. Glory hallelujah! I am with the Lord."
"There is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the Dead."
"You were not made free merely to escape the tyranny of a despot, but to inherit a great responsibility." - James A. Garfield, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1881.
"Give the South, as rapidly as possible, the blessing and the security of honest and capable local self-government." - James A. Garfield.
"The whole Nation kin." - Jefferson Davis on Guiteau’s Crime, New York Times, July 16, 1881.
"I hope the dangers are nearly passed." - Lucretia Garfield to Mrs. Logan, July 14, 1881.
"In these few weeks of trial and anxiety, I have learned to know and value her worth as never before." - On Lucretia Garfield, New York Times, Aug. 28, 1881.
"She must be a pretty brave woman." - Mabel Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, July 25, 1881.
"Everywhere people go about with a solemn look." - On public sentiment after President Garfield's shooting, New York Times, July 3, 1881.
"His vanity is literally nauseating." - On Charles Guiteau, Hayes and Hayes, A Complete History.
"I have a letter for General Sherman." - Charles Guiteau, after the assassination.
"Something went out of him that never came back; the sense of the sacredness of life and the impossibility of destroying it."
"We want Garfield!"—starting a cascade of support that ended in his nomination.
"Science should be able to discover some less barbarous method."
"There is a tone of sadness running through this triumph, which I can hardly explain."
"Instantly hundreds of strong arms caught the cars, and silently rolled the three heavy coaches."
"A faint, fluttering pulsation of the heart, gradually fading to indistinctness."
"Life would have meant very little to Lucretia after her husband’s death."