As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never hear a real American talk like that.


Speech to the Jersey City Chamber of Commerce (12 January 1938), as quoted in The Last Three Miles : Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway (2007) by Steven Hart, p. 137.

Frank Hague Quotes

As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I ...

As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I ...

As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I ...

As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I ...