"Springfield" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... England would be averse to crossing the Hudson River, and would prefer a service more advantageous to their own country.[8] We should find at Boston cannon and mortars. Others, if necessary, might be sent from Springfield, and the corps of American ...
— Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette • Lafayette
... States Armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, is the largest, best appointed, and altogether the most productive establishment for the manufacture of small arms in the world,—those belonging to the Austrian Government at Vienna, and to the British at Enfield, being greatly inferior both in size and appointments; ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 72, October, 1863 • Various
... personal power of getting along with such lower types of men, for it revealed to him the human extremes of the American Nation. How vast it was, how varied, how intricate, and, potentially, how sublime! Lincoln, coming out of the Kentucky back woods, first to Springfield, Illinois, then to Chicago in its youth, and finally to Washington, similarly passed in review the American contrasts of his time. More specific was Roosevelt's training as a Civil Service Commissioner. The public had been applauding him as a youthful prodigy, as a fellow of ...
— Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, • William Roscoe Thayer
... Gaunt?" asked Palmer, seeing him button his thin coat. "Take my blanket,—nay, you shall. As soon as I am strong enough, I'll find you at Springfield." ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 60, October 1862 • Various
... of the century whose closing years he was destined so notably to affect. His home has always been in his native village of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, now a portion of the city of Chicopee, one of the group of municipalities of which Springfield is the nucleus. He lived on Church Street in a house long the home of his father, a beloved Baptist clergyman of the town. His clerical ancestry is perhaps responsible for his essentially religious nature. ...
— Looking Backward - 2000-1887 • Edward Bellamy
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