Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

— Grover Cleveland

Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

— Grover Cleveland

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

— Grover Cleveland

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by aggregated capital, and all statutes on this subject should recognize the care of the State for honest toil, and be framed with a view of improving the condition of the workingman.

— Grover Cleveland

WHATEVER YOU DO, TELL THE TRUTH.

— Grover Cleveland

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

— Grover Cleveland

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 avoid in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials.

— Grover Cleveland

When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.

— Grover Cleveland

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

— Grover Cleveland

Party honesty is party expediency.

— Grover Cleveland

The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people.

— Grover Cleveland

Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

— Grover Cleveland

The trusts and combinations—the communism of pelf—whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.

— Grover Cleveland

What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?

— Grover Cleveland

I have tried so hard to do the right.

— Grover Cleveland

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

— Grover Cleveland