Grover Cleveland

Men and times change-but principles-never.

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing…

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty. I always advise my…

— Grover Cleveland

The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention…

— Grover Cleveland

Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges,…

— Grover Cleveland

“We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected.”

— Grover Cleveland

Good ball players make good citizens.

— Grover Cleveland

I have a Congress on my hands.

— Grover Cleveland

The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights…

— Grover Cleveland

Honor lies in honest toil.

— Grover Cleveland

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the…

— Grover Cleveland

“I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan, as proposed by this bill, to indulge a benevolent and charitable sentiment…

— Grover Cleveland

William McKinley has left us a priceless gift in the example of a useful and pure life, in his fidelity to public…

— Grover Cleveland

The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he…

— Grover Cleveland

It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its…

— Grover Cleveland

All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to…

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

And let us not trust to human effort alone, but humbly acknowledging the power and goodness of Almighty God, who presides over…

— Grover Cleveland

Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

— Grover Cleveland

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to…

— Grover Cleveland