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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

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

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

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

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity. 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

All progress is experimental. John Jay Chapman