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Honor lies in honest toil.
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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Grover Cleveland Jr.
Stephen Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland Jr.
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More quotes by Grover Cleveland
It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!
Grover Cleveland
The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people.
Grover Cleveland
It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.
Grover Cleveland
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.
Grover Cleveland
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.
Grover Cleveland
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.
Grover Cleveland
The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.
Grover Cleveland
What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?
Grover Cleveland
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.
Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland declined to participate in character attacks on Blaine . When presented with papers which purported to be extremely damaging to Blaine, he grabbed them, tore them up, flung the shreds into the fire, and decreed, The other side can have a monopoly of all the dirt in this campaign.
Grover Cleveland
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.
Grover Cleveland
I have tried so hard to do the right.
Grover Cleveland
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.
Grover Cleveland
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.
Grover Cleveland
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.
Grover Cleveland
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.
Grover Cleveland
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
Grover Cleveland
Above all, tell the truth.
Grover Cleveland
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.
Grover Cleveland
A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.
Grover Cleveland
