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Men and times change-but principles-never.

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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
President Cleveland
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No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
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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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My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.
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I have tried so hard to do the right.
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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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