Speech · Political speechUnder our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.James A. GarfieldInaugural Address of James A. Garfield · 1881★ 1.9
Speech · Political speechIf in other lands it be high treason to compass the death of the king, it shall be counted no less a crime here to strangle our sovereign power and stifle its voice.James A. GarfieldInaugural Address of James A. Garfield · 1881★ 1.9
Speech · Political speechBy the experience of commercial nations in all ages it has been found that gold and silver afford the only safe foundation for a monetary system.James A. GarfieldInaugural Address of James A. Garfield · 1881★ 1.2