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Grover Cleveland
American
President
About the author
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#Law
#Man
#Spirit
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#People
Party honesty is party expediency.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#Party
#Expediency
#Honesty
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#People
#Public
#Laws
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.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#Want
#Man
#Woman
#Civilization
#Women
#Vote
#Intelligence
Some day I will be better remembered.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#Will
#Day
The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#People
#Support
#Government
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#Peace
#Necessity
#states
#United
#Nation
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#Public
#Trust
#Public trust
Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#Wonder
#Night
#Eyes
#Dream
Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#People
#Support
#Government
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#Honor
#Dignity
#American
#Labor
#Fact
#Lies
#Sentiment
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#Public
#Act
After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#Years
#Laws
#Existence
The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#May
#Democracy
#Storms
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,
American
President
#People
#Will
#Government
#Poor
#Care
Honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#Honor
#Lies
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#People
#Success
#Government
#Justice
#Interest
#Morality
#Intelligence
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#Honor
I have tried so hard to do right.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#Right
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.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#Now
#People
#Will
#Being
#American
#Men
#Rules
#Goodness
#Mercy
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.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#Responsibility
#Man
#Truth
#Wind
#Consideration
In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#People
#Government
#Office
#Presidency
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
Grover Cleveland,
American
President
#Peace
#Government
#Communism