Grover Cleveland actually said...

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

"The evidence of disability from the cause alleged is weak, to say the most of it."

"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."