A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
Grover ClevelandThe paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individuals of a special race.
Grover ClevelandOnce the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.
Grover ClevelandThe broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people civilized and free, upon which should rest, in well-distributed ownership, the numerous homes of enlightened, equal, and fraternal citizens... Nor should our vast tracts of so-called desert lands be yielded up to the monopoly of corporations or grasping individuals, as appears to be much the tendency under the existing statute.
Grover Cleveland