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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesaction administration advantages affairs Ameri American citizenship Annual Message Barnstable County believe benefit better bill Buffalo cause centennial day citizens claim condition confidence Congress consideration Constitution countrymen Dear Sir Democratic party desire devotion direct tax dollars duty efforts entirely entitled Executive Mansion existence fact faith favor fellow-citizens friends furnish Grover Cleveland honest honor hope important increase Indian institutions intelligent interests invitation justice Kings County labor land Latin Union legislation manufactures Massachusetts meet ment obligation occasion partisan patriotic pension people's permitted political polygamy present President principles profession promise prosperity protection public duty purpose question Reform Club regard relation result revenue secure selfish Senate sentiment silver soldiers success sure tariff reform Tariff Reform League taxation things thought tion to-day to-night Treasury treaty trust United welfare York York Legislature Popular passagesPage 351 - Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. Page 350 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. Page 433 - No county, city, town or village shall hereafter give any money or property, or loan its money or credit to or in aid of any individual, association or corporation, or become directly or indirectly the owner of stock in, or bonds of, any association or corporation; nor shall any such county, city, town or village be allowed to incur any indebtedness except for county, city, town or village purposes. Page 322 - The government of the Union, then (whatever may be the influence of this fact on the case), is emphatically and truly a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them, its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit. Page 247 - SHALL LEAVE THEM OTHERWISE FREE TO REGULATE THEIR OWN PURSUITS OF INDUSTRY AND IMPROVEMENT, AND SHALL NOT TAKE FROM THE MOUTH OF LABOR THE BREAD IT HAS EARNED. Page 57 - An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States... Page 389 - ... a mental or physical disability of a permanent character, not the result of their own vicious habits, which incapacitates them from the performance of manual labor in such a degree as to render them unable to earn a support... Page 119 - I have lived, Sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. Page 120 - I have said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun. Page 119 - In this situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us. how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings... References from web pagesnationmaster - Encyclopedia: Grover Cleveland Miller Center of Public Affairs - Papers — Grover Cleveland (1837 ... The Cleveland Era; a chronicle of the new order in politics / Ford ... Grover Cleveland :: Additional Reading -- Britannica Online ... Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 - The writings and speeches of Grover ... Bibliographic information
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