Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, distinguished himself as a principled leader committed to fiscal responsibility and government reform. His steadfast dedication to honesty and integrity in public service set a high standard for future generations of American leaders, leaving a lasting legacy of integrity and statesmanship.
"Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people."
"I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind."
"The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people."
"A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves."
"Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government."
"Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust."
"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."
"He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor."
"In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office."