Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

- 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…

- Charles Edison

I would rather be respected than elected.

- 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…

- 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.

- 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…

- 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.

- Charles Edison

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

- 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…

- Charles Edison