James A. Garfield Quote

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.


His Speeches at Home (ed. 1880)


We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our...

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our...

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our...

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our...