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John Jay Chapman

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 up beneath the oppressions of his age.

– John Jay Chapman

John Jay Chapman

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

John Jay Chapman

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

John Jay Chapman

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

– John Jay Chapman

John Jay Chapman

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

– John Jay Chapman

John Jay Chapman

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.

– John Jay Chapman

John Jay Chapman

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.

– John Jay Chapman

John Jay Chapman

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

– John Jay Chapman

John Jay Chapman

Too much agreement kills the chat.

– John Jay Chapman

John Jay Chapman

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

– John Jay Chapman

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 in The Machine that governs us.

– John Jay Chapman

John Jay Chapman

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

– John Jay Chapman

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