Quotes from Chester A. Arthur

The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.

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.

Honors to me now are not what they once were.

The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

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.

Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

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.

If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.

Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

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.

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

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.

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.

Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobodys damn business.

Honors to me now are not what they once were.

The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.

Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.

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.

Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a close and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of [from audience: soap, in reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter]. I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country.

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.

Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.