Charles Edison Quotes

• Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

  Charles Edison

  Topics in Progress, Society

  Tags in Cannot

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

  Charles Edison

  Topics in Democracy, Leadership

  Tags in Problems, Must

• 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.

  Charles Edison

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Down, Government

• 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.

  Charles Edison

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Before, Necessary

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy, Made, Promises

• 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.

  Charles Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Before, Again

• In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

  Charles Edison

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Natural, Physics

• I would rather be respected than elected.

  Charles Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rather, Respected

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

  Charles Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity, State

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conscience, Except

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hate, Human

• 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.

  Charles Edison

  Topics in Service

  Tags in Confident, After

• Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

  Charles Edison

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Often, Economics

• 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.

  Charles Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Problems, Today

• 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.

  Charles Edison

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in True, State, Citizens

• 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.

  Charles Edison

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Idea, Things

• 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.

  Charles Edison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Simple, Constitution

Charles Edison (17)

Birth:	3rd August, 1890
Death:	31st July, 1969
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman, Governor, Politician

About

Charles Edison was a son of Thomas Edison and Mina Miller. He was a businessman, who became Assistant and then United States Secretary of the Navy, and served as the 42nd Governor of New Jersey. He attended the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut. In 1915-1916 he operated the 100-seat "Little Thimble Theater" with Guido Bruno. There they played the works of George Bernard Shaw and August Strindberg while Charles contributed verse to "Bruno's Weekly" under the pseudonym "Tom Sleeper". Late in 1915, he brought his players to Ellis Island to perform for Chief Clerk Augustus Sherman and more than four hundred detained immigrants.

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