| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 4261 |
| QUOTATION: | Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Chester A. Arthur (18291886), U.S. president. Ed. James D. Richardson, Messages and Papers of the Presidents, vol. 8 (1897). Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur, ch. 13, Thomas C. Reeves (1975).
Said upon the death of President Garfield. |
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