Quote#Politics & Power
The laws and the entire scheme of our civil rule, from the town…
Quote byGrover Cleveland · 1837–1908
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: First Inaugural Address (4 March 1885).
English (original)
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 sphere, exercises a public trust.
— Grover Cleveland
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