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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.

— Chester A. Arthur

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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.

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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.

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