Grover Cleveland actually said...

"I return without approval House bill No. 9106, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Rachel Barnes.'"

"I think it should be sustained; and its correctness is somewhat strengthened by the fact that the claimant continued in active service for more than a year after his alleged sickness."

"To grant a pension in this case would clearly contravene the present policy of the Government."

"I am sure that in no case except in an application for pension would an attempt be made in the circumstances here developed to attribute death from apoplexy to a wound in the knee received nineteen ye..."