What in the world had Grover Cleveland done? Will you tell me? You give it up? I have been looking for six weeks for a Democrat who could tell me what Cleveland has done for the good of his country and for the benefit of the people, but I have not found him.... He says himself...that two-thirds of his time has been uselessly spent with Democrats who want office.... Now he has been so occupied in that way that he has not done anything else.

Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.

I am for America because America is for the common people.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

The liberty to make our laws does not give us the freedom nor the license to break our laws!

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?