"After an existence of nearly twenty years of……" — Grover Cleveland
"After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth."
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74 Quotes by Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland has 74 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.
- A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest…
- I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always…
- Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
- Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
- A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
- Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in…
- The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.
- It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
- I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
- Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly…
- Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.