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For a hundred and fifty years, in the pasture of dead horses,
roots of pine trees pushed through the pale curves of your ribs ...
Donald Hall
horses | names
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My desire is that your office [the New York Customhouse] shall be conducted on strictly business principles.... In making appointm ...
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
civil service | politics
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Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.
Chester A. Arthur
Asia | Trade
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There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good s ...
Chester A. Arthur
government | civil service
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I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined wi ...
Chester A. Arthur
peace
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Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a c ...
Chester A. Arthur
elections
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The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.
Chester A. Arthur
government | vice presidency, the
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Madam, I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damn business.
Chester A. Arthur
leadership | presidency: U.S.
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Honors to me now are not what they once were.
Chester A. Arthur
achievement
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What a pleasant lot of fellows they are. What a pity they have so little sense about politics. If they lived North the last one of ...
Chester A. Arthur
politics | Democrats
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