Garfield's Words

Excerpt from Garfield's Words: Suggestive Passages From the Public and Private Writings of James Abram Garfield The attention pain in this country to the literature of Congress and the literature of the stump is trifling. This, possibly, is excusable, as much of it is but the sawdust of debate, the dry chips that some prosy orator hews from the block of a tire some topic. Literary brilliancies are seldom expected from political successes. In consequence much that is valuable, powerful, and eloquent of national life, appearing in speeches that are the exception to the rule, is missed by the majority. The reader will, probably, read with surprise - not being aware of their existence - the clever, philosophical, manly, and patriotic sayings that are printed in the following pages. They are compiled from the public utterances and the private letters oi our late President. It is indeed remarkable how thickly his speeches and letters are studded with jewels of utterance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.