The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man,… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
If any of you ... have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce,… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind. — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is.… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
There are lots of people who can't think seriously without injuring their brains — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done. — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
