Grover Cleveland actually said...

"I am entirely satisfied that the public building provided for in this bill is not immediately necessary."

"It is hardly fair to ask the Government to grant a pension for the freak or gross heedlessness and recklessness of this soldier."

"The fact is, in this case there is no disability which can be traced to the forty days' military service of fifty-four years ago."

"I can hardly see how the Pension Bureau could arrive at any conclusion except that the death of the soldier was not due to his military service."