Friday, September 19, 2014

IN LOVING MEMORY OF PRESIDENT JAMES A. GARFIELD [QUOTE ~ SEPTEMBER 19, 2014]



 
Official White House portrait of James Garfield

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian — the humble listener — there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.
[The Province of History (c. 1856), Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 620.]

-       James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States

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