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Grover Cleveland on Government

1837–1908 United States

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

Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.

They have proved themselves offensive partisans and unscrupulous manipulators of local party management.

He mocks the people who proposes that the Government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrowth of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil which, exasperated by injustice and discontent, attacks with wild disorder the citadel of misrule.

Annual Message (1888)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Grover Cleveland (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.