Quotes from Grover Cleveland

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

Men and times change-but principles-never.

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

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

The admitted right of a government to prevent the influx of elements hostile to its internal peace and security may not be questioned, even where there is not treaty stipulation on the subject.

It is a condition which confronts us - not a theory.

It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.

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

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

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

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

Honor lies in honest toil.

In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

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

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

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

Good ball players make good citizens.

What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?

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

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.

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

Some day I will be better remembered.