Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Clevelandwas the 22nd and 24th President of the United States. He was the winner of the popular vote for president three times – in 1884, 1888, and 1892 – and was one of the three Democratsto serve as president during the era of Republican political domination dating from 1861 to 1933. He is the only President in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth18 March 1837
CountryUnited States of America
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.
Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be blessed with a proud name, one that parents will employ for generations to instill the values of honesty, independence, and above all, courage in their sons.
I have a Congress on my hands.
Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.
Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.
After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.
I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.
It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.
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.
I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.
The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil which, exasperated by injustice and discontent, attacks with wide disorder the citadel of misrule.
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage earner - the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction - is practically defenseless.
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.