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Political Quotes by Grover Cleveland
- Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
- A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
- I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
- The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan…
- After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.
- No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
- He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
- The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is…
- Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously…
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