Grover Cleveland Quote

"The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people."

By:	Grover Cleveland (more quotes by Grover Cleveland or books by/about Grover Cleveland)
	(1837-1908) 22nd & 24th US President, mayor and governor in New York state
Source:	First Inaugural Address, 1885
Categories:	Government, Patriotism, Politics, President
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