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"I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country."
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"The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs."
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"Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress."
"You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters."
"I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves."
"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."
"For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way."
"I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance."
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