Grover Cleveland Short Quotes

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

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

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

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

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Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

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

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

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

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I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.

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

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Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

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He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

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Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.

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The trusts and combinations—the communism of pelf—whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.

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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.

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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.

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The admitted right of a government to prevent the influx of elements hostile to its internal peace and security may not be questioned, even where there is not treaty stipulation on the subject.

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