Grover Cleveland Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.”
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“The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.”
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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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“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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“Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.”
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“A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.”
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“Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.”
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“What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?”
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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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“Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.”
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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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“No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.”
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“A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.”
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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.”
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“I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.”
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“Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.”
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“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.”
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“No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty. I always advise my friends to place their savings in realty near a growing city. There is no such savings bank anywhere.”
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“It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.”
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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.”
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“I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.”
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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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“Well, my dear fellow what did you expect, champagne?”
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“The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.”
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“In calm water every ship has a good captain.”
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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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