GCGrover Cleveland

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Grover Cleveland

Born 1837 AD; death year unknown

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1837 AD

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

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02c. 1837 AD

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

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03c. 1837 AD

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

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04c. 1837 AD

Party honesty is party expediency.

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05c. 1837 AD

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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06c. 1837 AD

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

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07c. 1837 AD

Honor lies in honest toil.

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08c. 1837 AD

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

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09c. 1837 AD

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

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10c. 1837 AD

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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11c. 1837 AD

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

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12c. 1837 AD

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.

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13c. 1837 AD

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

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14c. 1837 AD

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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15c. 1837 AD

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

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16c. 1837 AD

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

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