Steven Grover Cleveland Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Steven Grover Cleveland
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“Party honesty is party expediency.”
Politics Quotes
Source: in a interview in the "New York Commercial Advertiser"
“It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory.”
Politics Quotes
Source: Annual Message
“American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen.”
Labor Quotes
Source: Annual Message
“A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.”
Labor Quotes
Source: Letter accepting the nomination for President
“Honor lies in honest toil.”
Honor Quotes
Source: in letter accepting presidential nomination, in Stoddard's "Life of Grover Cleveland"
“Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.”
Public trust Quotes
Source: Inaugural Address
“Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute laws which the people have made and within the limits of a constitution which they have established.”
Public trust Quotes
Source: Letter of Acceptance as Candidate for Governor, see W.O. Stoddard's "Life of Cleveland", ch. IX
“The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.”
Public trust Quotes
Source: Letter of Acceptance as Candidate for Governor, see W.O. Stoddard's "Life of Cleveland", ch. IX
“Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.”
Voting Quotes
Source: Inaugural Address
“I have tried so hard to do right.”
Famous last words Quotes