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By Grover Cleveland
...though the people support the Government the Government should not support the people.
- Source
- Veto Message (House bill No. 10203, Texas seed-grain relief), February 16, 1887
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project (text follows the Public Papers of the Presidents)
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From President Cleveland's veto message of February 16, 1887, returning a bill to give seed grain to drought-stricken Texas counties. The words are the end of a longer sentence (it begins "A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that"), so the quote is a cut from it.