"As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure."

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Source : Speech to the Jersey City Chamber of Commerce (12 January 1938), as quoted in "The Last Three Miles : Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway" by Steven Hart, (p. 137), 2007.

Frank Hague

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“The world doesn't need any more sadness than it's already got.”
“Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down”

Source : Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.18, Princeton University Press
“We can find loopholes in a lot of things if we want to bend the rules of the church.”
“While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities [smallpox], blended with the fond hope of enjoying independence and domestic peace and happiness, was often so excessive that, in pursuing my favourite subject among the meadows, I have sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie.”
“These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation,”
“The bells are a very good investment. They never break if they are maintained. I can teach the kids the basics. They may play bells for only one year, but many of them go on to play at local churches.”
“It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.”
“I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.”

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