Grover Cleveland: "Principles above Spoils" Letter - Milestone Documents

Grover Cleveland: “Principles above Spoils” Letter

( 1890 ) Commentary by Tom Lansford, University of Southern Mississippi

“I am convinced that our duty to those who have trusted us consists in pushing on continually and vigorously the principles in the advocacy of which we have triumphed, and thus superseding all that is ignoble and unworthy.” - “Principles above Spoils” Letter

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