I believe no greater danger confronts us as a nation than the unhappy decadence among our people of genuine and trustworthy love and affection for our Government as the embodiment of the highest and best aspirations of humanity.
Grover Cleveland: “I believe no greater danger confronts us as a nation than the unhappy decadence among our people of genuine and…”
On the recordMay 28, 1896
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