Grover Cleveland Quotes (32 Quotes)


    Party honesty is party duty, and party courage is party expediency.

    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.

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

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

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


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

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

    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.

    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.


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

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

    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.


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

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

    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.

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

    We do not believe that the American people will knowingly elect to the Presidency a coarse debauchee who would bring his harlots with him to Washington, and hire lodgings for them convenient to the White House.

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

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

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


    He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen - on the farm, in the workshop, in the busy marts of trade, and everywhere - should sh

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

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

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

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

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


    come at the most pleasant season of the year, nearly midway between the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, and would fill a wide gap in the chronology of legal holidays.

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


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