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1837–1908 United States
Stephen Grover Cleveland (18 March 1837 – 24 June 1908) was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. He was one of only two presidents (along with Donald Trump) to be to serve nonconsecutive terms and to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents.
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Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.
After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
It is a condition which confronts us — not a theory.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
The American Mercury (1961)
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.
I feel as if it were time for me to write to someone who will believe what I write.
A truly American sentiment recognises the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
American labor, which is the capital of our workingmen.
We are coming back just four years from today.
I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.
Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.
I have tried so hard to do the right.
They have proved themselves offensive partisans and unscrupulous manipulators of local party management.
What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?
An Honest President (2000)
I recommend that a law be passed to prevent the importation of Mormons into the country.
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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