Arthur Capper Quotes
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We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some…
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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…
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Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and…
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Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is…
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Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a…
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