Grover Cleveland actually said...

"I should consider myself, in favor of his widow, bound by the act of the Pension Bureau in allowing him a pension."

"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."

"The Government is not an almoner of gifts among the people, but an instrumentality by which the people's affairs should be conducted upon business principles, regulated by the public needs."

"Upon the whole it does not appear, as a business proposition, that the building proposed should be undertaken."