Grover Cleveland

Above all, tell the truth.

— Grover Cleveland

Good ball players make good citizens.

— Grover Cleveland

Some day I will be better remembered.

— Grover Cleveland

I have tried so hard to do the right.

— Grover Cleveland

Men and times change-but principles-never.

— Grover Cleveland

In calm water every ship has a good captain.

— Grover Cleveland

Honor lies in honest toil.

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.

— Grover Cleveland

What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?

— Grover Cleveland

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.

— Grover Cleveland

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

— 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

I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there…

— Grover Cleveland

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

— 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

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

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of…

— Grover Cleveland

I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public…

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

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

— 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

The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of…

— Grover Cleveland

The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people…

— Grover Cleveland

I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives…

— 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

“Neither the discontent of party friends, nor the allurements constantly offered of confirmations of appointees conditions upon the avowal that suspensions have…

— Grover Cleveland

“Communism is a hateful thing and a menace to peace and organized government; but the communism of combined wealth and capital, the…

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

“It is right that the influence of the Government should be known in every humble home as the guardian of frugal comfort…

— Grover Cleveland