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

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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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New Jersey
Grover Cleveland Jr.
Stephen Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland Jr.
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Stephen G. Cleveland
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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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Good ball players make good citizens.
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My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.
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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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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice
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A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.
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Men and times change-but principles-never.
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Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
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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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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 United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
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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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What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?
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Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.
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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 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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