Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
Grover ClevelandRead
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.
Interpretation
This quote expresses a belief in divine oversight and support during challenging times.
Grover Cleveland's quote reflects a conviction in a higher power that governs human affairs, emphasizing faith and humility in seeking divine assistance. It suggests that even in difficult moments, the American people can rely on the goodness and mercy of this Supreme Being, provided they approach with reverence and sincerity.
In practice
This quote can be used in a sermon to emphasize the importance of faith in challenging times.
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.
Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.
Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.
If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps.
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.
I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly full. That's what I want. What I know is what we all know, whether we'll admit it or not: every attempt to impose the roundness of a well-made play on reality produces a disaster. Life just isn't so, nor will it be made so.
And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.
We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need — but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need — within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves.
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