Chester A. Arthur Quotes
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The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.
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The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
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The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.
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Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.
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I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
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As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.
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Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.
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The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.
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It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.
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There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.
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I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.
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Honors to me now are not what they once were.
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What a pleasant lot of fellows they are. What a pity they have so little sense about politics. If they lived North the last one of them would be Republicans.