30 Quotations by John Jay Chapman
- 1. A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing vir ...

- 2. All progress is experimental.

- 3. An endeavor to please elders is at the bottom of high marks and mediocre careers.

- 4. Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a ...

- 5. Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social lif ...

- 6. Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

- 7. I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

- 8. If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness ...

- 9. If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your ...

- 10. Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at th ...

- 11. It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudic ...

- 12. It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

- 13. My own habitual feeling is that the world is so extremely odd, and everything in it so surprising. W ...

- 14. Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We ...

- 15. People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dr ...

- 16. People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, -- that reform consists in taking a bone ...

- 17. Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

- 18. So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.

- 19. So, our lives, in acts exemplary, not only win ourselves good names, but doth to others give matter ...

- 20. The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he ha ...

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