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Party honesty is party expediency.
Grover Cleveland
I have tried so hard to do right.
Grover Cleveland
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
Grover Cleveland
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
Grover Cleveland
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
Grover Cleveland
What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?
Grover Cleveland
After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.
Grover Cleveland
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
Grover Cleveland
I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.
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
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
Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.
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
WHATEVER YOU DO, TELL THE TRUTH.
Grover Cleveland
The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people.
Grover Cleveland
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.
Grover Cleveland
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.
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
Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.
Grover Cleveland
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
Grover Cleveland
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
Grover Cleveland
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