Grover Cleveland

I recommend that a law be passed to prevent the importation of Mormons into the country.

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

I am so completely convinced of the importance of this cause, as it is related to the solution of a problem no patriotic citizen should neglect, that I look upon every attempt to stimulate popular interest and activity in its behalf as a …

The trusts and combinations—the communism of pelf—whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.

Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people.

Party honesty is party expediency.

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

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

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

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

When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a …

a stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and man's oppression, until Liberty enlightens the world.

We are not here today to bow before the representation of a fierce warlike god, filled with wrath and vengeance, but we joyously contemplate instead our own deity keeping watch and ward before the open gates of America and greater than all …

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, …

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

The laws and the entire scheme of our civil rule, from the town meeting to the State capitals and the national capital, is yours. Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different …

Amid the din of party strife the people's choice was made, but its attendant circumstances have demonstrated anew the strength and safety of a government by the people. In each succeeding year it more clearly appears that our democratic …

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

WHATEVER YOU DO, TELL THE TRUTH.

The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by aggregated capital, and all statutes on this subject should recognize the care …

I shall spend very little time in the purely ornamental part of the office. In point of fact, I will tell you, first of all others, the policy I intend to adopt, and that is, to make the matter a business engagement between the people of …

I know that I am honest and sincere in my desire to do well; but the question is whether I know enough to accomplish what I desire.

I feel as if it were time for me to write to someone who will believe what I write.