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 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 not think that such a wholesome provision of law... should be modified upon the facts presented in this case.

The Government ought not to be called upon to insure against the quarrelsome propensities of its individual soldiers.