If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.

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.

Where you stand depends where you sit.

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.

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.

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

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