Grover Cleveland actually said...

"I fail to find in it reasonably satisfactory proof that the disabilities upon which he now bases his claim for a pension were incurred in the military service."

"I return without approval Senate bill No. 1762, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Benjamin A. Burtram.'"

"The propriety and expediency of this appropriation should be left to legislative discretion."

"I do not understand that this physician gives the least support to the theory that the wound for which this soldier was pensioned was in the slightest degree connected with his death."