Chester A. Arthur

“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.”

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

“Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remain unshaken.”

“Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is a very different man from Chester A. Arthur of New York.”

“Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking.”

“There doesn't seem to be anything else for an ex-president to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins.”