Grover Cleveland
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.Collection: Women
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.Collection: Peace
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.Collection: Government
Honor lies in honest toil.Collection: Work
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.Collection: Peace
Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.Collection: Dreams
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.Collection: Trust
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.Collection: Government
In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.Collection: Government
Party honesty is party expediency.Collection: Politics
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.Collection: History
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.Collection: Truth
Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.Collection: Government
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.Collection: Men
The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.
What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
I have tried so hard to do right.
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.
Some day I will be better remembered.
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.Collection: Government
In calm water every ship has a good captain.Collection: Water
Men and times change-but principles-never.Collection: Men
A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.Collection: Fighting
The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.Collection: Storm
The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiring citizenship, and bringing with them and retaining habits and customs repugnant to our civilization.Collection: Law
It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.Collection: Memories
Above all, tell the truth.Collection: Presidential
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.Collection: Character
Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.Collection: Government
What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?Collection: Use
Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.Collection: Citizens
WHATEVER YOU DO, TELL THE TRUTH.Collection: Telling The Truth
Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.Collection: Government
It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.Collection: Responsibility
Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.Collection: Sound
All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.Collection: Teaching
Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity.Collection: Country
We will not forget that Liberty has made her home here, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected...A stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and mans oppression until Liberty enlightens the world.Collection: Home
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.Collection: School
Grover Cleveland declined to participate in character attacks on Blaine . When presented with papers which purported to be extremely damaging to Blaine, he grabbed them, tore them up, flung the shreds into the fire, and decreed, "The other side can have a monopoly of all the dirt in this campaign.Collection: Character
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.Collection: People
In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.Collection: Patriotic
Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be blessed with a proud name, one that parents will employ for generations to instill the values of honesty, independence, and above all, courage in their sons.Collection: Honesty
Good ball players make good citizens.Collection: Inspirational Life