Grover Cleveland actually said...

"It is quite plain that in fairness and justice no appropriation should be made in favor of the claimant."

"As a legal proposition, the pensionable status of a soldier's widow, lost by her remarriage, can not be recovered by the dissolution of the second marriage."

"I suppose no one would suggest the renewal of such pension during the lifetime of her second husband."

"Her pensionable relation to the Government as the widow of her deceased soldier husband, under any reasonable pension theory, absolutely terminated with her remarriage."