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
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.