Best Quotes by Chester A. Arthur (Top 10)

  1. I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
  2. 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.
  3. Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.
  4. 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.
  5. Honors to me now are not what they once were.
  6. Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.
  7. The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.
  8. 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.
  9. Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.
  10. 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.