Grover Cleveland actually said...

"Monuments and statues multiply throughout the land, fittingly illustrative of the love and affection of our grateful people."

"This statue of a distinguished citizen, who in his life and services combined all these things and more, which challenge admiration in American character."

"If from this hour our admiration for the bravery and nobility of American manhood and our faith in the possibilities and opportunities of American citizenship be renewed, the dedication of the statue ..."

"She is now under the general law receiving precisely the pension which she would receive under the bill herewith returned if the same should be approved."