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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.

— Chester A. Arthur Veto message of Rivers and Harbor Bill (1882)

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

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Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

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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