Grover Cleveland actually said...

"Monuments and statues multiply throughout the land, fittingly illustrative of the love and affection of our grateful people."

"This statue of a distinguished citizen, who in his life and services combined all these things and more, which challenge admiration in American character."

"The beneficiary named in this bill was granted a pension on the 17th day of November, 1886."

"Upon the whole it does not appear, as a business proposition, that the building proposed should be undertaken."