Frank Hague

Frank Hague (1896 - 1956) was mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey .

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• "Listen, here is the law! I am the law! These boys go to work!"
  • Source: speech on city government to the Emory Methodist Episcopal Church in Jersey City, quoting what he had told the director of the special service bureau of the Board of Education upon being told that the law required two young delinquents to go to school rather than work, as they would have preferred, November 10, 1937

• "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."
  • Source: speech to the Jersey City Chamber of Commerce, January 12, 1938