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.

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

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

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

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

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.

As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.