The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
Grover Cleveland
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A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
Honor lies in honest toil.
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
It is a condition which confronts us - not a theory.
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
Party honesty is party expediency.
The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
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