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1829–1886 United States
Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 21st president of the United States (1881–85); he succeeded James A. Garfield upon the latter's assassination.
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Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.
Veto message of Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.
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.
Veto message of Rivers and Harbor Bill (1882)
Honors to me now are not what they once were.
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.
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.
The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.
There are very many characteristics which go to make a model civil servant; prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, manly deference to superior officers.
Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damn business.
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