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24th U.S. President

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Famous Grover Cleveland Quotes

“The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiring citizenship, and bringing with them and retaining habits and customs repugnant to our civilization.”

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Book:Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
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“Loyalty to the principles upon which our Government rests positively demands that the equality before the law which it guarantees to every citizen should be justly and in good faith conceded in all parts of the land.”

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Book:Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
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“As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.”

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Book:State of the Union Addresses
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