Top 17 Chester A. Arthur Quotes
#1. 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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#2. I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.
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#8. Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.
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#9. No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain.
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#10. 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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#12. Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins.
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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.
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#17. Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.
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