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Quotes by Grover Cleveland

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
– Grover Cleveland
After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.
– Grover Cleveland
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
– Grover Cleveland
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
– Grover Cleveland
It is a condition which confronts us - not a theory.
– Grover Cleveland
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
– Grover Cleveland
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
– Grover Cleveland
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
– Grover Cleveland
Party honesty is party expediency.
– Grover Cleveland
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
– Grover Cleveland
The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
– Grover Cleveland
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
– Grover Cleveland
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.
– Grover Cleveland
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
– Grover Cleveland
The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.
– Grover Cleveland
I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.
– Grover Cleveland
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
– Grover Cleveland
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
– Grover Cleveland