108 Quotes by Grover Cleveland

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

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

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

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

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

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

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

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.

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