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Charles Edison
 
Date of birth: 03 August 1890
Date of death: 31 July 1969
Country Of Origin: America
Profession:

Businessman

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    Charles Edison (August 3, 1890 – July 31, 1969), son of Thomas Edison, was a businessman, Assistant and then Acting Secretary of the Navy, and served as the List of Governors of New Jersey Governor of New Jersey of New Jersey. /b>

Born at his parents' home, Glenmont, in West Orange, New Jersey, he attended the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut. He married his college sweetheart Carolyn Hawkins on March 27, 1918. For a number of .... (More...)
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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. "

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 than on the job at hand and so he will fail. "

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. "

Charles Edison
" 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
" Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable. "

Charles Edison
" 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
" 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 know that we can now turn to our national and our state problems not as Republicans and Democrats, but as Americans, united to serve our country. "

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

Charles Edison
" I would rather be respected than elected. "

Charles Edison
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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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