Grover Cleveland actually said...

I recommend the passage of a law prohibiting such importation, with proper regulations as to the continuance of such prohibition.

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03/26/1888

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A government is not only kind, but performs its highest duty when it restores to the citizen taxes unlawfully collected.

The direct tax levied in 1861 is not even suspected of invalidity.

Any other theory cheapens and in a measure discredits a process which more than any other is a manifestation of sovereign authority.

I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of State, in further response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 22d (...