20 Quotes by Chester A. Arthur

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.

Men may die, but the fabrics of 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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