Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Grover Cleveland
Age: 71 †
Born: 1837
Born: March 18
Died: 1908
Died: June 24
24Th U.S. President
Executioner
Lawyer
Politician
Statesperson
Caldwell
New Jersey
Grover Cleveland Jr.
Stephen Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland Jr.
S. Grover Cleveland
Stephen G. Cleveland
President Cleveland
Place
Anywhere
Undeveloped
Certain
Investment
Enrich
Earth
City
Savings
Always
Safe
Advise
Cities
Bank
Growing
Owners
Sure
Saving
Friends
Near
More quotes by 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
I have tried so hard to do the right.
Grover Cleveland
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Grover Cleveland
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice
Grover Cleveland
If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.
Grover Cleveland
I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.
Grover Cleveland
What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?
Grover Cleveland
In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.
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 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
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
Above all, tell the truth.
Grover Cleveland
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland
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.
Grover Cleveland
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
Grover Cleveland
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
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
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
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
Men and times change-but principles-never.
Grover Cleveland
