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Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

Grover Cleveland

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Grover Cleveland
Age: 71 †
Born: 1837
Born: March 18
Died: 1908
Died: June 24
24Th U.S. President
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It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.
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The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiring citizenship, and bringing with them and retaining habits and customs repugnant to our civilization.
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He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.
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After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.
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My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.
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Men and times change-but principles-never.
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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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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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We will not forget that Liberty has made her home here, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected...A stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and mans oppression until Liberty enlightens the world.
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Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.
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Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
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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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Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.
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Honor lies in honest toil.
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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.
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Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.
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Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity.
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The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
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It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!
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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.
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