Classic Quotes by Grover Cleveland

1837-1908

American President

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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