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.
Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable. - Charles Edison
Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.
- Charles Edison
I would rather be respected than elected. - Charles Edison
I would rather be respected than elected.
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 t… - Charles Edison
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 t…
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 t… - Charles Edison
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 t…
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
I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.
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 projec… - Charles Edison
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 projec…
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
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.
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… - Charles Edison
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…
Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still. - Charles Edison
Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.
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