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.

A government is not only kind, but performs its highest duty when it restores to the citizen taxes unlawfully collected.

I regard the cause of civil service reform as so firmly established and its value so fully demonstrated.

Any other theory cheapens and in a measure discredits a process which more than any other is a manifestation of sovereign authority.