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

— Grover Cleveland

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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.

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