It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens. Grover Cleveland More Quotes by Grover Cleveland More Quotes From Grover Cleveland Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement. Grover Cleveland achievementcommunityloyalty Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. Grover Cleveland innovationcreativitywant 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 fundamental principles of free government. Grover Cleveland patrioticgovernmentpeople 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. Grover Cleveland struggleviewslaw And let us not trust to human effort alone, but humbly acknowledging the power and goodness of Almighty God, who presides over the destiny of nations, and who has at all times been revealed in our country's history, let us invoke His aid and His blessings upon our labors. Grover Cleveland destinyblessingcountry He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor. Grover Cleveland politicalgovernmentpeople 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. Grover Cleveland hoardingwisdomevil The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by aggregated capital and all statutes on this subject should recognize the care of the State for honest toil and be framed with a view of improving the condition of the workingman Grover Cleveland rightsviewsclass What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game? Grover Cleveland gamespeoplethinking I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. Grover Cleveland governmentsufferingbelieve Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service. Grover Cleveland protectionrewardscitizens Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously avoid in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials. Grover Cleveland offendinggovernmentpeople If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered. Grover Cleveland navyarmychicago In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office. Grover Cleveland governmentofficepeople Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency. Grover Cleveland currencysubstitutessound Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. Grover Cleveland presidentialvotingexercise Honor lies in honest toil. Grover Cleveland honestyworksuccess There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice Grover Cleveland submissioncalamityinjustice Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made. Grover Cleveland agentslawpeople A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond a breach of which subjects him to legal liabilities, and the United States, in aiming to maintain itself as one of the most enlightened nations, would do its citizens gross injustice if it applied to its international relations any other than a high standard of honor and morality. Grover Cleveland citizenshonormen
