Grover Cleveland
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"Stephen Grover Cleveland" was the List of Presidents of the United States/22nd and 24th President of the United States. He was the winner of the Elections in the United States#Presidential elections/popular vote for president three times—in United States presidential election, 1884/1884, United States presidential election, 1888/1888, and United States presidential election, 1892/1892—and was one of the two History of the Democratic Party (United States)/Democrats (alongside Woodrow Wilson) elected to the presidency in the era of History of the Republican Party (United States)/Republican political domination dating from 1861 to 1933.

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A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

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

Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.

He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen - on the farm, in the workshop, in the busy marts of trade, and everywhere - should sh.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice.

And still the question, "What shall be done with our ex-Presidents?" is not laid at rest; and I sometimes think Watterson's solution of it, "Take them out and shoot them," is worthy of attention.

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the f.

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

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

I have tried so hard to do the right.