John Jay Chapman Quotes

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

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

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

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.