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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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
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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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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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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