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"The people of Chicago are a proud people - and for good reason."
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"The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems."

"City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference."

"If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works."
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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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