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“Garfield's assassination attempt made "the whole nation care".”

— Jefferson Davis

“Dr. Lister, who treated the wounded Pres. Garfield, had been so stung by the medical establishment's reaction to his embrace of African-American doctors that…

— Candice Millard

“The busy 20th and 21st centuries have made Garfield's era seem remote and irrelevant, its leaders ridiculed for their very obscurity... to the generation…

— Kenneth D. Ackerman

“For the first time in their memory, certainly since the earliest beginnings of the Civil War, Americans facing the shared tragedy of Garfield’s ordeal…

— Candice Millard

“He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?”

— Graham Greene

“Although each of these disparate groups trusted Garfield, it was not until they were plunged into a common grief and fear that they began…

— Candice Millard

“One thing for sure; whoever I was supposed to keep safe really got the shittier end of the deal, considering the last person I’d…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“He had innocents to protect. That was part of his duty.”

— M.C.A. Hogarth

“Sound familiar? Rutherford B. Hayes was someone who thought that attracting opposition from nearly every direction meant that he was right. James A. Garfield,…

— Richard White

“She raised her voice, reminding him that he was a doctor, that his first priority was to help the sick, and he shot back…

— Basma Abdel Aziz

I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it.…

— Candice Millard

“Apparently it didn't take a phone book to stop a bullet. A single sheet of paper would do.”

— Jack Heath