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I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.

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The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

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If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.

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If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it.

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The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

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Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.

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Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

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I have been contending all my life, and always with God.

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We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

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I never heard a Christian sermon preached in a church.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: April 6th, 1866

Died: August 9th, 1936

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