Chester A. Arthur Quotes

• Where you stand depends where you sit.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Where You Stand, Depends

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• Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Inspirational Life, Power, President

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

  Chester A. Arthur

  Presidential, Reporters, Ifs

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

  Chester A. Arthur

  Patriotic, Political, President

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

  Chester A. Arthur

  Freedom, Patriotic, Men

  Chester A. Arthur's statement upon the death of President Garfield, as quoted in "Messages and Papers of the Presidents", Volume 8, 1897.

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• Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Country, President, Pumpkin

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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.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Order, Self, Habit

  First annual message, 1881.

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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.

  Chester A. Arthur

  People, Attention, Purpose

  Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

  Chester A. Arthur

  People, Evil, Expenditures

  Chester A. Arthur's veto message to the House of Representatives, August 1, 1882.

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• Honors to me now are not what they once were.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Honor

  Chester A. Arthur's written statement on the death of his wife, Ellen, as quoted in Thomas C. Reeves "Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur" (Chapter 8), 1975.

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

  Chester A. Arthur

  Men, Political, President

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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.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Differences, Civilization, People

  Chester A. Arthur's second annual message to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, December 4, 1882.

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• 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.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Government, People, Presidential

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

  Chester A. Arthur

  Keys, East, Influence

  Veto message of Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882.

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

  Chester A. Arthur

  Office, Honor, President

  "Random Recollections of an Old Political Reporter". Book by William C. Hudson, 1911.

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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.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Friendship, United States, Advancement

  Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Country, Islands, United States

  Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.127, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Country, Laughter, Book

  Chester A. Arthur's remarks concerned the presidential election of 1880, as quoted in "The New York Times", February 12, 1881.

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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.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Giving, Judging, President

  Chester A. Arthur (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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