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

— Chester A. Arthur Veto message of Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

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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.

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