"There is something peculiar in the temper of the House. A clear strong statement of a case if made too soon or too late fails. If well made at the right time it is effective. It is a nice point to study the right time."
— Timing

January 1, 1970

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James A. Garfield, journal entry (June 12, 1874); reported in Theodore C. Smith, The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield (1925), vol. 1, p. 511.