Grover Cleveland Quotes
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All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.
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I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
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The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.
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I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.
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The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
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A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
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The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
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It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.
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In calm water every ship has a good captain.
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I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise of administering the government in the honest, simple, and plain manner which is consistent with its character and purposes. They have learned that mystery and concealment in the management of their affairs cover tricks and betrayal. The statesmanship they require consists in honesty and frugality, a prompt response to the needs of the people as they arise, and a vigilant protection of all their varied interests.
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Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.
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Loyalty to the principles upon which our Government rests positively demands that the equality before the law which it guarantees to every citizen should be justly and in good faith conceded in all parts of the land.
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Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
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I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one.
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I have tried so hard to do the right.
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Grover Cleveland declined to participate in character attacks on Blaine . When presented with papers which purported to be extremely damaging to Blaine, he grabbed them, tore them up, flung the shreds into the fire, and decreed, "The other side can have a monopoly of all the dirt in this campaign.
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After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.
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William McKinley has left us a priceless gift in the example of a useful and pure life, in his fidelity to public trusts and in his demonstration of the value of kindly virtues that not only ennoble but lead to success.
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Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
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Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
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Well, my dear fellow what did you expect, champagne?
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Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.
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Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
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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.
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It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.
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The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.
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I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.
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The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by aggregated capital and all statutes on this subject should recognize the care of the State for honest toil and be framed with a view of improving the condition of the workingman
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The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people civilized and free, upon which should rest, in well-distributed ownership, the numerous homes of enlightened, equal, and fraternal citizens... Nor should our vast tracts of so-called desert lands be yielded up to the monopoly of corporations or grasping individuals, as appears to be much the tendency under the existing statute.
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What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?
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