"The laws and the entire scheme of our civil rule, from the town meeting to the State capitals and the national capital, is yours. Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust. Nor is this all. Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity and usefulness. Thus is the people's will impressed upon the whole framework of our civil polity — municipal, State, and Federal; and this is the price of our liberty and the inspiration of our faith in the Republic."
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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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