Richard J. Daley Quotes
I'm not afraid to make a patriotic speech. There should be more of them.
Richard Joseph Daley, 1902-1976, Mayor of Chicago (Democrat), Mercy Hospital campaign dinner, September 24, 1968
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“Fain” in this context means “forced by circumstances.” Emerson was suspicious of the facts behind any issue about which all are being extremely patriotic.
What is particularly interesting about this quotation is that at the time, this was a common concern by political and social thinkers of the West. Here however, we learn that there was apparently the same concern and problem ongoing in the Muslim Middle East.
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Richard Joseph Daley was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Chicago from 1955 and the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party Central Committee from 1953 until his death. He has been called "the last of the big city bosses" who controlled and mobilized American cities. Daley was Chicago's third consecutive mayor from the working-class, heavily Irish-American South Side neighborhood of Bridgeport, where he lived his entire life. He was the patriarch of the Daley family, whose members include Richard M. Daley, another former mayor of Chicago; William M. Daley, a former United States Secretary of Commerce; John P. Daley, a member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners; and Patrick Daley Thompson, an alderman of the Chicago City Council.
