People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it. — 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 is not for you is against you. — 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
