Grover Cleveland Quotes:- Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office (1885–1889 and 1893–1897). He won the popular vote for three presidential elections—in 1884, 1888, and 1892—and was one of two Democrats (with Woodrow Wilson) to be elected president during the era of Republican political domination dating from 1861 to 1933.
Grover Cleveland was born on March 18, 1837, in Caldwell, New Jersey, to Ann (née Neal) and Richard Falley Cleveland. Cleveland’s father was a Congregational and Presbyterian minister who was originally from Connecticut. His mother was from Baltimore and was the daughter of a bookseller.
Inspirational Grover Cleveland Quotes
“A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.”-Grover Cleveland
“A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.”-Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland Quotes On Peace
“Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.”–Grover Cleveland
“After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.”-Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland Quotes On the government
“He mocks the people who propose that the government shall protect the rich and that they, in turn, will care for the laboring poor.”-Grover Cleveland
“Honor lies in honest toil.”-Grover Cleveland
“I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.”-Grover Cleveland
“I have tried so hard to do right.”-Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland Quotes On People
“I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.”-Grover Cleveland
“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
Grover Cleveland Quotes On the presidency
“In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people’s office.”-Grover Cleveland
“It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.”-Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland Quotes On Together
“Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.”-Grover Cleveland
“No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.”-Grover Cleveland
“Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.”-Grover Cleveland
“Party honesty is party expediency.”-Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland Quotes On People
“Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.”-Grover Cleveland
“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.”-Grover Cleveland
“Someday I will be better remembered.”-Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland Quotes On Dreams
“Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.”-Grover Cleveland
“The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.”-Grover Cleveland
“The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.”-Grover Cleveland
“Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.”-Grover Cleveland
