Grover Cleveland

(1837–1908) Politician

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Grover Cleveland was a politician, best known for Presidential problems.

Quick Facts About Grover Cleveland

Born: March 18, 1837
Died: June 24, 1908
Profession: Politician
Notable works: Presidential problems

About Grover Cleveland

Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885‑1889 and again from 1893‑1897. He was the first Democrat elected after the Civil War and the first president to serve nonconsecutive terms.

Quotes by Grover Cleveland · Page 2

Party honesty is party expediency.

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I have a Congress on my hands.

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Congress

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In calm water every ship has a good captain.

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Calm

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Men and times change-but principles-never.

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Change

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Honor lies in honest toil.

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Honest

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WHATEVER YOU DO, TELL THE TRUTH.

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Funny

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

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

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Champagne

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

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Credit

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

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Communism

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A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.

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

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Appropriation

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

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Existence

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

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After an existence of nearly 20 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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Atheism

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The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.

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Government

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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…

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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…

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Care

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Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate…

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Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working…

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Civilization

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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…

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Christ

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“I believe the most important benefit that I can confer on the country by my presidency is to insist upon the entire…

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Freedom

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I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty…

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Appropriation

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Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but…

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Action

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He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation…

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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,…

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I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the…

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Affair

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The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of…

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