Grover Cleveland actually said...

"The man for whom this pension is proposed never, so far as I can learn, did a single day's actual military service at the front."

"Never has done a day's duty. Is utterly worthless and unfit for the Veteran Reserve Corps."

"To give the least encouragement to postmasters that these allowances would be upon their application revised and increased by Congress would lead to demoralization in the service."

"I think it should not, on the grounds that the amount was fixed by the Department upon full examination."