Quotes by Grover Cleveland

• No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
• Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
• Party honesty is party expediency.
• Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
• Some day I will be better remembered.
• The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.
• The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
• Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
• Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.
• Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.
• A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
• Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
• After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.
• The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.
• He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
• Honor lies in honest toil.
• A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
• I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
• I have tried so hard to do right.
• 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.
• 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.
• In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.
• It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.