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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

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I want to say here and now, that I demand unshakable integrity of every State employee.

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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.

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Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

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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.

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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.

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