Grover Cleveland: Fourth Annual Message to Congress

( 1896 ) Commentary by Tom Lansford, University of Southern Mississippi

“The United States has, nevertheless, a character to maintain as a nation, which plainly dictates that right and not might should be the rule of its conduct.” - Fourth Annual Message to Congress
“Until we face the contingencies suggested or the situation is by other incidents imperatively changed we should continue in the line of conduct heretofore pursued, thus in all circumstances exhibiting our obedience to the requirements of public law and our regard for the duty enjoined upon us by the position we occupy in the family of nations.” - Fourth Annual Message to Congress

Grover Cleveland (Library of Congress)

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