Grover Cleveland Quotes

• I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honour.

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• The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

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• The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

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• The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.

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• Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

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• Some day I will be better remembered.

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• Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

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• Party honesty is party expediency.

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• Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

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• No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

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• Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

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• It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

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• In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people’s office.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I have tried so hard to do right.

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• I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

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• Honor lies in honest toil.

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• He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

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• Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

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Birth:	18th March, 1837
Death:	24th June, 1908
Nationality:	American
Profession:	President

About

Stephen Grover Cleveland was born in Caldwell, New Jersey, USA. He was an American democratic politician and lawyer who served as the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. He is the only President in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office. He was the winner of the popular vote for president three times – in 1884, 1888, and 1892 – and was one of the three Democrats to serve as president during the era of Republican political domination dating from 1861 to 1933. He received his elementary education at the Fayetteville Academy and the Clinton Liberal Academy. In January 1863, he was appointed assistant district attorney of Erie County. As a lawyer, he became known for his single-minded concentration and dedication to hard work.

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