Community Quote by Jefferson Davis Download Open image ““Garfield's assassination attempt made "the whole nation care".”” — Jefferson Davis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Suffering Tragedy Unification
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Garfield’s own system had protected him from the bullet. What the president needed was something to protect him from his doctor.” — Brady Carlson Copy Share Image
With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people.… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
“He applauded a belated decision to evacuate Garfield from the White House in early September and bring him by train to Long Branch. “During… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Gerald Ford, one of the most admirable presidents of our time, once observed that if Lincoln were alive today, he’d be turning over in… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“And to think I survived this deadly workload, only to be murdered by the sight of my parents' bare asses, a tragedy that gives… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
“Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“To care deeply about a State that does not care about you is a tragedy. A tragedy I have come to embrace.” — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Whether by the House or by the People, if an Abolitionist be chosen President of the United States, you will have presented to you… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts of the… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
The Slave must be made fit for his freedom by education and discipline, and thus made unfit for slavery. And as soon as he… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
This war must go on till the last of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize his musket and fight our… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I will admit no bond that holds me to a party a day longer than I agree to its principles. When men meet together… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image