But in view of the lessons of the years of contest that have crowned the nation with victory, with the inspirations of liberty and truth brightly lighting the pathway of the people, who can doubt the equity of their voice? The nations of the earth must not be allowed to point at us as pitiful examples of weak selfishness. In the exigencies of this hour, our duty must be so done that the eternal scrolls of justice will ever bear record of the nobility of the nation's heart Animated, inspired, generous, fearless, in the work of liberty and truth, long will the Republic live, a bulwark of God's immutable justice.


Oration at Ravenna, Ohio (1865)

James A. Garfield Quotes

But in view of the lessons of the years of contest that have crowned the nation with victory, with the inspirations of liberty and truth brightly...

But in view of the lessons of the years of contest that have crowned the nation with victory, with the inspirations of liberty and truth brightly...

But in view of the lessons of the years of contest that have crowned the nation with victory, with the inspirations of liberty and truth brightly...

But in view of the lessons of the years of contest that have crowned the nation with victory, with the inspirations of liberty and truth brightly...