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Grover Cleveland: there is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and…

On the recordDecember 16, 1895
there is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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