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• The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.

  Grover Cleveland

  Citizens, Charity, Countrymen

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• 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.

  Grover Cleveland

  Home, Land, People

  Grover Cleveland's Fourth Annual Message (December 1888), published in "The writings and speeches of Grover Cleveland" edited by George Frederick Parker, circa 1892.

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• The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor.

  Grover Cleveland

  Wisdom, Rely Upon, Politics

  United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland), Grover Cleveland (1895*). “Special message, August 8th, 1893. Extract from third annual message, December 2nd, 1895”

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• I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

  Grover Cleveland

  Growing Up, Wife, Waiting

  "An Honest President". Book by H. Paul Jeffers, 2000.

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• The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people.

  Grover Cleveland

  Government, People, Support

  Inaugural Address, 4 March 1893

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

  Grover Cleveland

  Government, Presidential, Hateful

  Grover Cleveland (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.259, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Well, my dear fellow what did you expect, champagne?

  Grover Cleveland

  Champagne, Dear, Wells

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• The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.

  Grover Cleveland

  Appreciation, Government, People

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise of administering the government in the honest, simple, and plain manner which is consistent with its character and purposes. They have learned that mystery and concealment in the management of their affairs cover tricks and betrayal. The statesmanship they require consists in honesty and frugality, a prompt response to the needs of the people as they arise, and a vigilant protection of all their varied interests.

  Grover Cleveland

  Honesty, Betrayal, Party

  Grover Cleveland (1892). “The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland”

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

  Grover Cleveland

  Political, Honor, Republic

  Veto of Dependent Pension Bill, 5 July 1888

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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.

  Grover Cleveland

  Truth, Responsibility, Men

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• After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.

  Grover Cleveland

  Years, Law, Political

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• William McKinley has left us a priceless gift in the example of a useful and pure life, in his fidelity to public trusts and in his demonstration of the value of kindly virtues that not only ennoble but lead to success.

  Grover Cleveland

  Example, Mckinley, Priceless

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• I have tried so hard to do the right.

  Grover Cleveland

  Dying, Last Words, Hard

  "Just a Country Lawyer: A Biography of Senator Sam Ervin". Book by Paul R. Clancy, 1974.

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• The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.

  Grover Cleveland

  Trust, Pope, Treated

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• I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one.

  Grover Cleveland

  Strong, Mistake, Law

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty. I always advise my friends to place their savings in realty near a growing city. There is no such savings bank anywhere.

  Grover Cleveland

  Cities, Saving, Growing

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• The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individuals of a special race.

  Grover Cleveland

  Race, Order, People

  Grover Cleveland (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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.

  Grover Cleveland

  Loyalty, Government, Law

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.

  Grover Cleveland

  Political, Politics, Theory

  Grover Cleveland (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.246, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!

  Grover Cleveland

  Temptation, Credit

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

  Grover Cleveland

  Peace, United States, Rehabilitation

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.

  Grover Cleveland

  President, Constitution, Warrants

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• If you are still in school, do not neglect your grades. Internships and other activities are fine, but when legal employers have to decide who to interview, grades play a big role in determining who makes that cut and who doesn't.

  Grover Cleveland

  School, Cutting, Play

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• Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges, the sovereign people, conscious of the general rectitude of his life, and courageously determined to bear the burdens of his sins in so far as guilt was his.

  Grover Cleveland

  People, Judging, Guilt

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