 | 1877 - 610 pages
...dead, the eloquent words of our last martyr-president : "There is nothing in all the earth," said he, "that you and I can do for the dead. They are past...them no glory, we can give to them no immortality." Remember, my hearers, that the time to idealize, to divinize our friends. is during their lives. Then... | |
 | 1878 - 1032 pages
...the living on behalf of the dead. "We hold reunions," once said Garfield to his old comrades in arms, "not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead; they do not need us, but forever and forevermore we need them." In this spirit I ask you to record and preserve... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - 1880 - 68 pages
...they be true. We build monuments to them. We hold reunions not for the dead, for there is nothing on all the earth that you and I can do for the dead....help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory and we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.... | |
 | 1881 - 328 pages
...him. As he said himself, scarcely more than a year ago, of his own dear, dead, soldier comrades: " We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing...our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory—we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and fore verm ore we need... | |
 | James Abram Garfield - 1881 - 98 pages
...warfare. Our race has ideas; and because ideas are immortal, if they be true, we build monuments to them. We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing...They are past our help and past our praise. We can GENERAL GARFIELD. 43 add to them no glory and we can give to them no immortality. They do not need... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1881 - 698 pages
...they be true, we build monuments to them. We hold reunions not for the dead, for there is nothing on all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can not add more glory, and we can give them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1881 - 738 pages
...they he true, we build monuments to them. We hold reunions not for the dead, for there is nothing on all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We cun not add more glory, and we can give them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever... | |
 | William S. Key - 1882 - 98 pages
...conflict." _ -.. . M wdKTCfl that - * ter tk«n for a cMtati^; bntnin. * k^pen to . " 01 01 BT E08TO», "We hold re-unions, not for the dead, for there is...give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but for ever and for -evermore we need them." * " Throughout the whole web of national existence we trace... | |
 | Secrets - 1882 - 74 pages
...no law without coercion behind it. " For the noblest man who lives there still remains a conflict. "We hold reunions not for the dead, for there is nothing...past our help and past our praise. We can add to them noglory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need... | |
 | 1883 - 804 pages
...osik, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, the thunderbolt. We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing...immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forevermore we need them. Imagine jf you can what would happen if to-morrow morning the railway locomotive... | |
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We hold re-unions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. 
