Best Quotes by Grover Cleveland (Top 10)
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Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.
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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.
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A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
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A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
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A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.
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The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.
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Honor lies in honest toil.
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No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice
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I have tried so hard to do right.
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More Grover Cleveland Quotes
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He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
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I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.
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Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
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It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.
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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.
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