Grover Cleveland actually said...

"I can find no principle or plausible pretext in this case which would not lead to granting a pension in any case of alleged disability arising from military service followed by suicide."

"This is certainly the correct course to be pursued in this case, in view of the failure to state in the special bill the regiment and company to which the soldier belonged at the time of the incurrenc..."

"While it is the rule under general laws that two pensions shall not be paid to the same person, ... it may result that under the peculiar wording of this bill she would be entitled to both pensions."

"Whatever may be said of the incurrence of sunstroke in the Army, I find no proof that at the time he fell he was afflicted with vertigo."