Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.
Grover ClevelandPublic officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
Grover ClevelandAs we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.
Grover Cleveland