Grover Cleveland actually said...

"There is no merit whatever in this case."

"The fact that the claim of the beneficiary has never been presented to the pension Bureau influences in some degree my action in withholding my approval of this bill."

"I am of the opinion that the evidence against the pension was quite satisfactory, and that it should not be restored, as the bill before me proposes."

"he surely was not in the service nor in the performance of any military duty at the time of the injury"