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Public Quotes by Grover Cleveland
- Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
- Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
- Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
- 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…
- I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I…
- 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…
- Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity.
- 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…
- He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic…
- Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.
- I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise…
- The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.
- I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General…
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