Chester A. Arthur/Quotes

Chester Alan Arthur (5 October 1829 - 18 November 1886) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 21st President of the United States from 1881 to 1885.
== Dated Quotes ==
=== 1880s ===
* "I am unwilling to dismiss this subject without assuring you of my support of any measures the wisdom of Congress may devise for the promotion of peace on this continent and throughout the world, and I trust that the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized peoples, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of arbitration."
** Second annual address, 1882.Chester A. Arthur's Second State of the Union Address - 4 December 1882 - Wikisource
* "The treaty meets my approval, because I believe that it supplies a satisfactory, practical, and final adjustment, upon a basis honourable and just to both parties, of the difficult and vexed question to which it relates."
** Submitting a treaty to the United States Senate, 20 February 1888The Correspondence of Sir John Macdonald - Edited by Sir Joseph Pope - 1921 - Doubleday, Page & Company - Page 410
== Links ==
* Chester A. Arthur on Wikiquote
== References ==
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