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John Jay Chapman Quotes

A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
John Jay Chapman

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 and a craving in the teacher himself.
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

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
John Jay Chapman

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

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

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
John Jay Chapman

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
John Jay Chapman

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

Too much agreement kills the chat.
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

Type:
Poet
Date of Birth:
1862-03-02
Year of Death:
1933
Nationality:
American