Grover Cleveland Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Grover Cleveland:

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
~Grover Cleveland


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#7fa1904a

After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.
~Grover Cleveland


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#4c523558

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
~Grover Cleveland


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#5520db09

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#a25918b6

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#d117d6fa

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
~Grover Cleveland


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#490a10bc

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#af6b0b50

Some day I will be better remembered.
~Grover Cleveland


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#3223bd18

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#8c4697ec

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
~Grover Cleveland


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#bca3841a

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.
~Grover Cleveland


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#ed23c43f

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#d327d3ce

Honor lies in honest toil.
~Grover Cleveland


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#9058c7e9

Party honesty is party expediency.
~Grover Cleveland


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#a11fe45d

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#92c8ea13

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#5bfc0420

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
~Grover Cleveland


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#458b566d

I have tried so hard to do right.
~Grover Cleveland


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#fb457588

What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?
~Grover Cleveland


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#dd386ee6

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#352218af

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#6c9894b5

Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.
~Grover Cleveland


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#cb9aff1d

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
~Grover Cleveland


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#1c384d50

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
~Grover Cleveland


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#996bd57d

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/grover-cleveland-quotes/#65a46135

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