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For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

~Arthur Capper

Topics: Better Cent City District Education Fit Life Means Must Now Only Per Provide Providing School Schooling Struggle Them Whose Will

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The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.

~Arthur Capper

Topics: Become Credit Farmers Farming Farms Kansas Long Long Time May Meeting Money More Need Obtain Operations Owners Readily Requirements Short Special System Time

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I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.

~Arthur Capper

Topics: Civil Civil Service Dare Explicit Industry Law Loyalty Merit Official Partisan Promotions Public Public Service Rewards Salaries Service Solely Strong Urge Will

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We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

~Arthur Capper

Topics: Chance Consider Duties Economic Functions Fundamental Generation Left Many Now State Were

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We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.

~Arthur Capper

Topics: Business Colleges Dollars Education Few Fits Life Many Million Million Dollars Money More Must Our Spend Spent Than University Well Year

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Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy.

~Arthur Capper

Topics: Administration Any Bureaucracy Concentrating Creation Dangers Follow Open Plan Responsibility Which

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It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.

~Arthur Capper

Topics: Born Capacity Citizens Develop Duty Environment Full Future Likely Most Our Powers Properly See Them Well

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The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole.

~Arthur Capper

Topics: Demands Friends Good Interests Must Needs People Pressure Sections Special Special Interests State Whole

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If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.

~Arthur Capper

Topics: Bodies Citizens Clean Clear Good Good Citizens Men Men And Women Minds Must Only Perpetuate Produce Souls Sound State Women

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County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.

~Arthur Capper

Topics: Business County Duties Government Greatly Keeping Making Offices Others Paid Performance Private Reducing Salaries Similar Some

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Politician

Born: July 14th, 1865

Died: December 19th, 1951

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