Grover Cleveland actually said...

The loyal States should not be paid the large sums of money promised them by this bill because they were loyal and other States were not.

Veto Message

03/01/1889

More Grover Cleveland Quotes

I return without approval Senate bill No. 2281.

The Government ought not to be called upon to insure against the quarrelsome propensities of its individual soldiers.

I herewith return without approval House bill No. 4797.

The delay of twenty-one years in presenting the claim for pension certainly needs explanation.