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By Grover Cleveland
The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people.
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- Inaugural Address, March 4, 1893
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- The American Presidency Project (text follows the Public Papers of the Presidents)
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From Grover Cleveland's second inaugural address, delivered at the Capitol on March 4, 1893. It restates the idea of his 1887 Texas seed bill veto.