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

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

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.

Where you stand depends where you sit.

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

The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.

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.