Chester A. Arthur (1829 – 1886)
21st President of the United States, serving from 1881 to 1885, following the assassination of James A Garfield.
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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.
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.
I don't think we had better go into the minute secrets of the campaign, so far as I know them, because I see the reporters are present, who are taking it all down.
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.
Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.
Honors to me now are not what they once were.
Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.
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.
Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody’s damn business.
Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.
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