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.
- Stephan Grover Cleveland
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
- Stephan Grover Cleveland
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
- Stephan Grover Cleveland
I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.
- Stephan Grover Cleveland
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
- Stephan Grover Cleveland
I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.
- Stephan Grover Cleveland
It is a condition which confronts us, not a theory.
- Stephan Grover Cleveland
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