Along Quote by Candice Millard

“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

“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

“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

“Garfield's shooting had also revealed to the American people how vulnerable they were. In the little more than a century since its inception, the…

— Candice Millard

I definitely grew up on Garfield. I just loved his pessimism.

— El-P

Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could…

— Bruce Catton

The post-assassination Lincoln took on a greatly amplified importance to much of the American public, probably the president most deeply reviled in his lifetime…

— Fred Kaplan

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I…

— Frederick Douglass

Lincoln was the Twain of our politics.

— Fred Kaplan

There is a great overlap of tragedy that played out through the generations of the Lincolns. That, coupled with the idea that many people…

— Michael Beschloss

“the Northern people; whereas, as a matter of fact, but for the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, I believe the great majority of the Northern…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Lincoln believed in the American people.

— Steven Spielberg