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In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.
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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Caldwell
New Jersey
Grover Cleveland Jr.
Stephen Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland Jr.
S. Grover Cleveland
Stephen G. Cleveland
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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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I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.
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The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.
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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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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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Honor lies in honest toil.
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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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It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!
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What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?
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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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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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If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.
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The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
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