Grover Cleveland

President

United States

1837 - 1908

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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.
Grover Cleveland
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
Grover Cleveland
Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.
Grover Cleveland
I have tried so hard to do right.
Grover Cleveland
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
Grover Cleveland
The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.
Grover Cleveland
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
Grover Cleveland
What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?
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Some day I will be better remembered.
Grover Cleveland
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.
Grover Cleveland