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
As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.
I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one.
Loyalty to the principles upon which our Government rests positively demands that the equality before the law which it guarantees to every citizen should be justly and in good faith conceded in all parts of the land.
After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiring citizenship, and bringing with them and retaining habits and customs repugnant to our civilization.
Sometimes people wouldn't bother calling me back. They'd think it was a prank. My dad's side of the family -- big Democrats.
We do not believe that the American people will knowingly elect to the Presidency a coarse debauchee who would bring his harlots with him to Washington, and hire lodgings for them convenient to the White House.
After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.
I have tried so hard to do right.
Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear consciencewill overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness andhigh achievement.
Party honesty is party duty, and party courage is party expediency.
Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges, the sovereign people, conscious of the general rectitude of his life, and courageously determined to bear the burdens of his sins in so far as guilt was his.