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" I do not believe that the power and duty of the general government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. "
Life and Public Services of Grover Cleveland: Twenty-second President of the ... - Page 247
by William Uhler Hensel - 1892 - 536 pages
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The Rise of Big Government in the United States

John F. Walker, Harold G. Vatter - Political Science - 1997 - 282 pages
...measures. That reorientation tossed onto the scrap heap of history Hoover's professed policy dictum that "though the people support the government, the government should not support the people." Many of the demands for federal intervention in the market system came from business sources. The NIRA,...
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The Financing of Catastrophe Risk

Kenneth A. Froot - Business & Economics - 2007 - 490 pages
...Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent...Government, the Government should not support the people. . . . Federal aid in [cases of misfortune] encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part...
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Presidential Documents: The Speeches, Proclamations, and Policies that Have ...

Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 pages
...Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent...the limited mission of this power and duty should, 1 think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that though...
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The American Leadership Tradition: The Inevitable Impact of a Leader's Faith ...

Marvin Olasky - History - 2000 - 324 pages
...$10,000 of free seed to drought-stricken farmers in west 159 Texas. Cleveland vetoed the bill, arguing that "the lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people." Cleveland noted that "Federal aid, in such cases, encourages...
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Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline ...

John V. Denson - Executive power - 2001 - 830 pages
...relief of individual suffering. ... A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power should, I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end...Government the Government should not support the people. . . . Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government...
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James Madison and the Future of Limited Government

John Curtis Samples - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 260 pages
...Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent...Government, the Government should not support the people.17 Stern words, but the climate of ideas was changing even then. The "prevalent tendency" to...
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From Liberty to Democracy: The Transformation of American Government

Randall G. Holcombe - Business & Economics - 2002 - 352 pages
..."A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of [the government's] power and duty should be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson...Government, the Government should not support the people."52 The problem that Cleveland saw, anticipated by Tocqueville, was that in a democracy people...
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When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager

David A. Moss - Business & Economics - 2004 - 472 pages
...individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit." He added that "though the people support the Government, the Government should not support the people. . . . Federal aid in [cases of misfortune] encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part...
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Grover Cleveland: The American Presidents Series: The 22nd and 24th ...

Henry F. Graff - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 204 pages
...suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit." He stated a principle: "Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people." Still, Cleveland did not shrink from other kinds of intervention in economic activity. He was pleased...
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Financial History of the United States

Paul Studenski, Herman Edward Krooss - Business & Economics - 2003 - 548 pages
...scope of the Federal government. The Hoover administration continued to pay lip service to the dictum that "though the people support the government, the government should not support the people," but it began to have a hollow sound, and when private charity, municipal government, and state resources...
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