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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I could not help it if it suited the purposes of Mayor Hague to back me for the governorship and I had no control over him supporting me because he thought it was to his advantage. I never sought the support of Mayor Hague. I did seek the support of the Democratic Party, a party that he has deliberately weakened all over the state, except in Hudson, to suit his own selfish purposes. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I know that we can now turn to our national and our state problems not as Republicans and Democrats, but as Americans, united to serve our country. |
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Vote: | I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience. |
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Vote: | I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee. |
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Vote: | I would rather be respected than elected. |
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Vote: | In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Lest we loose our own rights," Edison warned his fellow citizens at the outset of his address, "we must have a renewed determination to govern ourselves so well that we will never be ruled by a despot. |
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Vote: | Liberal and conservative can be synonyms or antonyms, depending upon who speaks the words - that any basic difference between Democrat and Republican is infinitesimal, if, indeed, any difference exists. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | One obvious approach to combating increasing centralized authority in Washington was, and is, to revivify and strengthen the role of state governments. The better the job the states do, the less excuse there is for stringent federal control. |
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Vote: | Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership. |
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Vote: | Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still. |
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Charles Edison (August 3, 1890–July 31, 1969), son of Thomas Edison, was a businessman, Assistant and then Acting Secretary of the Navy, and governor of New Jersey.
Biography
Born at his parents' home Glenmont, he attended the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut. He married his college sweetheart Carolyn Hawkins on March 27, 1918. For a number of years Charles Edison ran Edison Records. Charles became president of his father's company Thomas A. Edison, Inc. in 1927, and ran it until it was sold in 1959.
In 1937 President Roosevelt appointed Charles Edison as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, then as Acting Secretary on January 2, 1940, Claude A. Swanson having died several months previously. Edison himself only kept the job until June 24, resigning to run his gubernatorial campaign. During his time in the Navy department, he advocated construction of the large Iowa-class battleships, and that one of them be built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, which secured votes for Roosevelt in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the 1940 election; in return, Roosevelt had BB-62 named the USS New Jersey.
In 1940 he won election as governor of New Jersey, running in reaction to the political machine run by Frank Hague, but broke with family tradition by declaring himself a Democrat. As governor he proposed updating the state constitution. Although it failed in a referendum and nothing was changed during his tenure, state legislators did reform the constitution later. In 1948 he established a charitable foundation, originally called "The Brook Foundation", now the Charles Edison Fund.
Between 1951 and 1969 he lived in the Waldorf Astoria Towers, where he struck up a friendship with Herbert Hoover, who also lived there. In 1962, Edison was one of the founders of the Conservative Party of New York State. His personal mascot was the owl, and he collected objects depicting owls. Charles Edison is buried in East Orange, New Jersey.
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