Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.
From Grover Cleveland
What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
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.
Party honesty is party expediency.
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
I have tried so hard to do right.
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