Party honesty is party duty, and party courage is party expediency. (Grover Cleveland)
I had a political consultant tell me that with my name, she could easily get me elected to the Supreme Court. If I were going to forge a credit card, would I put on a name that called attention to it. (Grover Cleveland)
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again. (Grover Cleveland)
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. (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)
Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear consciencewill overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness andhigh achievement. (Grover Cleveland)
After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth. (Grover Cleveland)
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. (Grover Cleveland)
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood. (Grover Cleveland)
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge. (Grover Cleveland)
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. (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)