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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

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

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation. John Jay Chapman

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a new focus, a new ratio between commerce and intellect. John Jay Chapman

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