"Amid the din of party strife the people's choice was made, but its attendant circumstances have demonstrated anew the strength and safety of a government by the people. In each succeeding year it more clearly appears that our democratic principle needs no apology, and that in its fearless and faithful application is to be found the surest guaranty of good government. But the best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of 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."
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Presidents of the United StatesLawyers from New York (state)People from NewarkPoliticians from New JerseyGovernors of New York
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First Inaugural Address (4 March 1885).
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Grover Cleveland
1837 – 1908
US-amerikanischer Politiker
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