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By Chester Alan Arthur
The wisdom of our fathers, foreseeing even the most dire possibilities, made sure that the Government should never be imperiled because of the uncertainty of human life.
- Source
- Address Upon Assuming the Office of President of the United States, September 22, 1881
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- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Chester A. Arthur's address on September 22, 1881, read after he took the oath a second time in the Capitol, days after President Garfield died of his wounds from an assassin's shot. He is praising the framers of the Constitution for planning for a President's death.