Chester A. Arthur

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

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.

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.

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.

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