Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

Where you stand depends where you sit.

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.

It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.

Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins.

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.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.