Grover Cleveland actually said...

"The disability of which he complains has no natural relation to the sickness he claims to have had during his service."

"The evidence now offered in support of this claim appears to have reference to a time long anterior to its rejection by the Pension Bureau in 1886."

"If we are to adhere to the rule that in order to entitle the widow of a soldier to a pension the death of her husband must be in some way related to his military service, there can be no doubt that up..."

"I do not regard the control reserved in the resolution to the Secretary of War over such excavations, fillings, and structures upon the island as may be proposed as of much importance."