Quotes by Chester A. Arthur

“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...”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Honors to me now are not what they once were.”

“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, se...”

“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— [fro...”

“I don’t think we had better go into the minute secrets of the campaign, so far as I know them… while I don’t mean to say anything about my birthplace, whether it was in Canada or elsewhere, still, ...”

“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.”

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

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

“Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damn business.”