Famous Grover Cleveland Quotations

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"The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity."
by Grover Cleveland
"There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness."
by 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."
by Grover Cleveland
"I have tried so hard to do the right."
by Grover Cleveland
"It is the duty of those serving the people in public place closely to limit public expenditures to the actual needs of the government economically administered, because this bounds the right of the government to extract tribute from the earnings of labor or the property of the citizen, and because public extravagance begets extravagance among the people. We should never be ashamed of the simplicity and prudential economies which are best suited to the operation of a republican form of government and most compatible with the mission of the American people. Those who are selected for a limited time to manage public affairs are still of the people, and may do much by their example to encourage, consistently with the dignity of their official functions, that plain way of life which among their fellow-citizens aids integrity and promotes thrift and prosperity."
by Grover Cleveland
"The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal."
by Richard Olney
"Loyalty to the principles upon which our Government rests positively demands that the equality before the law which it guarantees to every citizen should be justly and in good faith conceded in all parts of the land."
by Grover Cleveland
"Party honesty is party duty, and party courage is party expediency."
by Grover Cleveland
"The Bible is good enough for me, just the old book under which I was brought up. I do not want notes or criticisms, or explanations about auth..."
by Grover Cleveland
"The truth is, I do not want that office. When the American people choose a President they require him to remain awake four years. I have come ..."
by Grover Cleveland


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