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Men Quotes by John Jay Chapman
- 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…
- 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 fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its…
- The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint.…
- The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows…
- The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows…
- Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It…
- A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men,…
- One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to…
- The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.
- The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the…
- The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.
- The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the…
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