The Best Grover Cleveland quotes

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

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen. — Grover Cleveland

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. — Grover Cleveland

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. — Grover Cleveland

Good ball players make good citizens. — Grover Cleveland

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. — Grover Cleveland

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

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

Your every voter, as surely as Your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. — Grover Cleveland

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. — Grover Cleveland

These are days of special perplexity and depression, and the path of public duty is unusually rugged. — Grover Cleveland

The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite. — Grover Cleveland

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

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency. — Grover Cleveland

The end is the end no matter when it happens. Waiting only makes it hurt more. — Rebekah Crane

I have a Congress on my hands. — Grover Cleveland

Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people. — Grover Cleveland

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

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

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. — Grover Cleveland

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board. — Grover Cleveland

In calm water every ship has a good captain. — Grover Cleveland

It is a condItion which confronts usnot a theory. — Grover Cleveland

I’m only waiting for my wife to grow up. — Grover Cleveland

Men and times change–but principles–never. — Grover Cleveland

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law. — Grover Cleveland

The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor. — Grover Cleveland

Glass can break, but that doesn’t mean it’s weak. Sometimes the shards are all we get. I — Rebekah Crane

Honor lies in honest toil. — Grover Cleveland

It hurts,’ I say. He nods. ‘I know. But it’s the only way to heal. — Rebekah Crane

I have tried so hard to do right. — Grover Cleveland