20 Quotes by Chester A. Arthur

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Where you stand depends where you sit.

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

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.