Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1806
AUTHOR:
Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)
QUOTATION:
It is a condition which confronts us—not a theory.
ATTRIBUTION:
President GROVER CLEVELAND, third annual message to Congress, December 6, 1887.—The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland, ed. George F. Parker, p. 86 (1892).
