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Grover Cleveland1837–1908

Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people’s intelligence.

Grover Cleveland on democracy

At the celebration of the sesquicentennial of Princeton College (October 22, 1896).

Democracy Intelligence

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