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" In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office. "
Grover Cleveland
Presidency
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" What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something? "
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" Party honesty is party expediency. "
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" Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government. "
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" Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. "
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" Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people. "
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" It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge. "
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" Honor lies in honest toil. "
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" I have tried so hard to do right. "
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" 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. "
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" The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity. "
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" The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board. "
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" Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again. "
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Together
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" Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made. "
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" 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. "
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Me
" He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor. "
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" Some day I will be better remembered. "
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Some
Remembered
" Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. "
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" No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law. "
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Ever
" Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream. "
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Dream
Wake
" A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. "
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Dignity
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" 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. "
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" After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth. "
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