Amanda Webster’s Reviews > Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President > Status Update

"All the noble aspirations of my lamented predecessor which found expression in his life, will be garnered in the hearts of the people, and it will be my earnest endeavor to profit, and to see that the nation shall profit, by his example. - Arthur

"And I tell you now, in the closing days of this campaign, that I would rather be with you and defeated than against you and victorious."

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"If I ever get through a course of study I don't expect any one will ask me what kind of cost I wore when studying, and if they do I shall nit be ashamed to tell them it was a ragged one." - Garfield

"I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that I may own him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat." - James Garfield

"It had shaped his mind, forget paths, created opportunities where once there had been none. Education, he knew, led to progress, and progress was his country's only hope of escaping its own painful past" -pg 9