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By James Garfield
It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors, and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.
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- Inaugural Address, March 4, 1881 · Inaugural Address, p. 792
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- Internet Archive (scan of The Works of James Abram Garfield, vol. II, ed. Burke A. Hinsdale, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883, the original edition)
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From James A. Garfield's Inaugural Address, delivered March 4, 1881, in his section on fighting illiteracy through universal education. The text is from the 1883 edition of his collected works.