If there be one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man — it is a man who dares to look the devil i… - James A. Garfield

It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

It is a sad place, young man, for you to put your young life into. It is to me far more like a graveyard than like a camp for the living. Look at it! It is billowed all over with the graves of dead issues, of buried opinions, of exploded theories, of disgraced doctrines.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

In order to win victory now, we want the vote of every Republican — of every Grant Republican, and every anti-Grant Republican, in America — of every Blaine man and every anti-Blaine man. The vote of every follower of every candidate is needed to make success certain. Therefore I say, gentlemen and brethren, we are here to take calm counsel together, and inquire what we shall do.