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Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
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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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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Men and times change-but principles-never.
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Honor lies in honest toil.
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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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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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It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!
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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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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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Good ball players make good citizens.
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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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What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?
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