Quotes from Speech Nominating John Sherman for President — James A. Garfield
1831–1881 United States
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"This is our only revenge — that you join us in lifting into the serene firmament of the Constitution, to shine like stars for ever and ever, the immortal principles of truth and justice: that all men, white or black, shall be free, and shall stand equal before the law."
Speech Nominating John Sherman for President (1880)
Not in Chicago, in the heat of June, but at the ballot-boxes of the Republic, in the quiet of November, after the silence of deliberate judgment, will this question be settled. And now, gentlemen of the Convention, what do we want?
Speech Nominating John Sherman for President (1880)