Grover Cleveland actually said...

"It is also ordered,That no person shall be admitted into any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the classes above designated until he shall have passed an appropr..."

"It is provided,That this classification shall not include persons appointed to an office by and with the advice and consent of the Senate nor persons employed as mere laborers or workmen;"

"I transmit herewith a treaty for the arbitration of all matters in difference between the United States and Great Britain."

"The experiment of substituting civilized methods for brute force as the means of settling international questions of right will thus be tried under the happiest auspices."