Grover Cleveland Quotes - Page 2

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• Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

  Grover Cleveland

  Sound, Currency, Substitutes

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• I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

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  Indulge In, Liberty, Libertarian

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

  Grover Cleveland

  Running, Principles, Defeated

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• And let us not trust to human effort alone, but humbly acknowledging the power and goodness of Almighty God, who presides over the destiny of nations, and who has at all times been revealed in our country's history, let us invoke His aid and His blessings upon our labors.

  Grover Cleveland

  Country, Blessing, Destiny

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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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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  Rights, Views, Class

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.

  Grover Cleveland

  Struggle, Views, Law

  Grover Cleveland (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.254, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.

  Grover Cleveland

  Race, Presidential, Atheism

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• 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

  Government, People, Political

  Grover Cleveland (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.259, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

  Grover Cleveland

  Home, Land, People

  Grover Cleveland's Fourth Annual Message (December 1888), published in "The writings and speeches of Grover Cleveland" edited by George Frederick Parker, circa 1892.

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• I cannot help but think it perilous to suffer these lands or the sources of their irrigation to fall into the hands of monopolies, which by such means may exercise lordship over the areas dependent on their treatment for productiveness.

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  Fall, Mean, Exercise

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• The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individuals of a special race.

  Grover Cleveland

  Race, Order, People

  Grover Cleveland (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

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  Government, Office, People

  Grover Cleveland (1904). “Presidential Problems”

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• The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil which, exasperated by injustice and discontent, attacks with wide disorder the citadel of misrule.

  Grover Cleveland

  Integrity, Justice, Political

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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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  Law, People, Agents

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor.

  Grover Cleveland

  Wisdom, Rely Upon, Politics

  United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland), Grover Cleveland (1895*). “Special message, August 8th, 1893. Extract from third annual message, December 2nd, 1895”

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• Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.

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  Loyalty, Achievement, Community

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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.

  Grover Cleveland

  Dream, Eye, Night

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• Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.

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  Creativity, Innovation, Want

  Astronaut James Lovell’s Commencement Speech at the University of Wisconsin - Madison's winter commencement at the Kohl Center, news.wisc.edu. December 18, 2016.

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• If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

  Grover Cleveland

  Army, Navy, Chicago

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• Honor lies in honest toil.

  Grover Cleveland

  Success, Honesty, Work

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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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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  Thinking, Games, People

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• I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.

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  Believe, Government, Suffering

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously avoid in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials.

  Grover Cleveland

  Government, Offending, People

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.

  Grover Cleveland

  Presidential, Trials

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• There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

  Grover Cleveland

  Injustice, Submission, Calamity

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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