Quote#Wisdom
I don’t think we had better go into the minute secrets of the…
Quote byChester A. Arthur · 1829–1886
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: also 12 February 1881 in Times.
English (original)
I don’t think we had better go into the minute secrets of the campaign, so far as I know them… while I don’t mean to say anything about my birthplace, whether it was in Canada or elsewhere, still, if I should get to going about the secrets of the campaign, there is no saying what I might say to make trouble between now and the 4th of March.
— Chester A. Arthur
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