Best 78 quotes of Grover Cleveland on MyQuotes

Above all, tell the truth.

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

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

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

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 man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond a breach of which subjects him to legal liabilities, and the United States, in aiming to maintain itself as one of the most enlightened nations, would do its citizens gross injustice if it applied to its international relations any other than a high standard of honor and morality.

And let us not trust to human effort alone, but humbly acknowledging the power and goodness of Almighty God, who presides over the destiny of nations, and who has at all times been revealed in our country's history, let us invoke His aid and His blessings upon our labors.

As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.

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

At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage earner - the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction - is practically defenseless.

Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be blessed with a proud name, one that parents will employ for generations to instill the values of honesty, independence, and above all, courage in their sons.

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

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.

Good ball players make good citizens.

Grover Cleveland declined to participate in character attacks on Blaine . When presented with papers which purported to be extremely damaging to Blaine, he grabbed them, tore them up, flung the shreds into the fire, and decreed, "The other side can have a monopoly of all the dirt in this campaign.

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 can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.

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

I cannot help but think it perilous to suffer these lands or the sources of their irrigation to fall into the hands of monopolies, which by such means may exercise lordship over the areas dependent on their treatment for productiveness.

I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

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

If you are still in school, do not neglect your grades. Internships and other activities are fine, but when legal employers have to decide who to interview, grades play a big role in determining who makes that cut and who doesn't.

I have a Congress on my hands.

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

I have tried so hard to do the right.

I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.

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 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.

In calm water every ship has a good captain.

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

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.

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

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

It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.

It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.

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.

Loyalty to the principles upon which our Government rests positively demands that the equality before the law which it guarantees to every citizen should be justly and in good faith conceded in all parts of the land.

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

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

No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty. I always advise my friends to place their savings in realty near a growing city. There is no such savings bank anywhere.

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

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously avoid in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials.

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

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

Party honesty is party expediency.

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

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

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

The admitted right of a government to prevent the influx of elements hostile to its internal peace and security may not be questioned, even where there is not treaty stipulation on the subject.