Grover Cleveland Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Grover Cleveland:

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

Grover Cleveland

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

Grover Cleveland

Honor lies in honest toil.

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

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

Grover Cleveland

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

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After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.

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A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

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A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

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Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

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

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

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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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The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

Grover Cleveland

Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

Grover Cleveland

Party honesty is party expediency.

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Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

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I have tried so hard to do right.

Grover Cleveland

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

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No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

Grover Cleveland

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