John Jay Chapman Quotes

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• 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…
• Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
• Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
• Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them…
• 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.
• All progress is experimental.
• Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
• A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect.
• 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…
• It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.
• 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…
• I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
• The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity…
• So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.
• The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.
• 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…
• Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.
• We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.

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