Grover Cleveland Quotes

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

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

In calm water every ship has a good captain.

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

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

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

What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?

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.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.

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.

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

WHATEVER YOU DO, TELL THE TRUTH.

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

Honor lies in honest toil.

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.

Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

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

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

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

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

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

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

What, and give him (the batter) a chance to think on my time.

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

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

It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!

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

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

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.

Well, my dear fellow what did you expect, champagne?

The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.

I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.

Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity.

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

I have tried so hard to do the right.

Some day I will be better remembered.

Good ball players make good citizens.

Men and times change-but principles-never.

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one.

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

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

Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.

I have a Congress on my hands.

My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.