Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
Grover ClevelandUnder our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.
Grover ClevelandEvery citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity.
Grover ClevelandHe who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.
Grover Cleveland