Quotes by Charles Edison - Page 1

I would rather be respected than elected.
Charles Edison / Former Governor Of New Jersey
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Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.
Charles Edison / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Economics
Inseparable
Personality
Often
Personalities
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Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.
Charles Edison / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Constitution
Our Society
Progress
Stands
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I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee.
Charles Edison / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Demand
Employee
Unshakable
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Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.
Charles Edison / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Leadership
Courageous
Democracy
Problem
Poses
Shall
Solved
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I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.
Charles Edison / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Men
Clear
Conscience
Want
Except
Perfectly
Perfectly Clear
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I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.
Charles Edison / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Kings
Activity
Desire
Hate
Human Activity
Play
Tyranny
Tyrants
Charles
No Desire
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In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.
Charles Edison / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Miracle
Natural
Normal
Physics
Seems
Two
Would Be
Merely
Places
Same Time
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In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.
Charles Edison / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Election
Officials
Past
Promise
Public Officials
Views
Merely
Pledges
Promises
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It is my happy privilege to be able to stand here and tell you that if you elect me you will have elected a governor who has made no promises of preferment to any man or group.
Charles Edison / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Men
Groups
Privilege
Promise
Man Me Will
Man Me Stand
Elect
Governor
Promises
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It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.
Charles Edison / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Active
Commonwealth
Issues
Organization
Party
Welfare
Observe
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A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.
Charles Edison / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Altered
Awkward
Confusing
Produce
Simple
Arrangement
Courts
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My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.
Charles Edison / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Government
Emulate
Federal Government
Flow
Goal
Jersey
State Government
Power Government New
Model
Slow
Thereby
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Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.
Charles Edison / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Jobs
Men
Hands
Man Will More
Fail
Something Else
Springboard
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Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.
Charles Edison / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Conscious
Foundation
Jersey
New Jersey
Office
Policy
Public Policy
Purpose
Term
Devote
Fundamental
Lay
Seek
Standard
Service
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I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.
Charles Edison / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Bickering
Capacity
Civil Service
Legislature
Members
Rise Above
Above
Rise
Confident
Civil
Demonstrate
Partisan
Promises
Service
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He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions.
Charles Edison / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Dollars
Plowing
Raw Materials
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Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.
Charles Edison / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Government
Arise
Boss
Citizens
Democratic
Democratic Ideals
Devoted
Ideals
Inevitable
Nevertheless
Believers
Bosses
Constantly
Dictators
Governments
Local
Local Governments
Oppose
Prosper
True Believers
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