The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individuals of a special race. Grover Cleveland More Quotes by Grover Cleveland More Quotes From Grover Cleveland 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 citizens honor men Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream. Grover Cleveland eye dream night No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law. Grover Cleveland political law men I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor. Grover Cleveland republic political honor It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge. Grover Cleveland defeated principles running My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things. Grover Cleveland presidential trials Men and times change-but principles-never. Grover Cleveland principles men No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty. I always advise my friends to place their savings in realty near a growing city. There is no such savings bank anywhere. Grover Cleveland growing saving cities 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. Grover Cleveland rely-upon politics wisdom I cannot help but think it perilous to suffer these lands or the sources of their irrigation to fall into the hands of monopolies, which by such means may exercise lordship over the areas dependent on their treatment for productiveness. Grover Cleveland exercise mean fall Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity. Grover Cleveland presidential watches country After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth. Grover Cleveland political law years Party honesty is party expediency. Grover Cleveland honesty political party 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. Grover Cleveland responsibility truth men 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. Grover Cleveland guilt judging people 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. Grover Cleveland strong law mistake 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. Grover Cleveland political justice integrity I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up. Grover Cleveland growing-up wife waiting Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen. Grover Cleveland waste citizens government The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite. Grover Cleveland treated pope trust
