Top 91 Quotes & Sayings by Grover Cleveland
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
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.
Party honesty is party expediency.
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.
The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.
Honor lies in honest toil.
What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.
I have tried so hard to do right.
Some day I will be better remembered.
And let us not trust to human effort alone, but humbly acknowledging the power and goodness of Almighty God, who presides over the destiny of nations, and who has at all times been revealed in our country's history, let us invoke His aid and His blessings upon our labors.
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.
What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?
As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.
It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.
Men and times change-but principles-never.
A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond a breach of which subjects him to legal liabilities, and the United States, in aiming to maintain itself as one of the most enlightened nations, would do its citizens gross injustice if it applied to its international relations any other than a high standard of honor and morality.
All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.
Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.
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.
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.
What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?
If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.
A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.
Above all, tell the truth.
Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.
My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.
Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.
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.
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.
I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.
I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.
The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people civilized and free, upon which should rest, in well-distributed ownership, the numerous homes of enlightened, equal, and fraternal citizens... Nor should our vast tracts of so-called desert lands be yielded up to the monopoly of corporations or grasping individuals, as appears to be much the tendency under the existing statute.
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.
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.
The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously avoid in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials.
WHATEVER YOU DO, TELL THE TRUTH.
At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage earner - the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction - is practically defenseless.
Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.
In calm water every ship has a good captain.
Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.
The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by aggregated capital and all statutes on this subject should recognize the care of the State for honest toil and be framed with a view of improving the condition of the workingman
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