Quotes from Grover Cleveland

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

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 in the best type of citizenship.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.

Above all, tell the truth.

I have tried so hard to do right.

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

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.

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

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

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

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.

And still the question, What shall be done with our ex-Presidents? is not laid at rest; and I sometimes think Wattersons solution of it, Take them out and shoot them, is worthy of attention.

Honor lies in honest toil.

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.

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

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.

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.