Grover Cleveland actually said...

"The value of pension legislation depends as much upon fairness and justice in its administration as it does upon its liberality and generosity."

"This bill provides for the payment of a pension of $30 a month to the beneficiary named as the widow of Peter H. Allabach."

"I do not see how the same relief as is contained in this bill can be denied to the many thousand widows who in a similar situation are now on the pension rolls under general laws."

"He was not enlisted, and was in no manner in the military service of the United States."