John Jay Quotes
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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
I sincerely believe blogging can save America.
— John Jay Hooker
Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.
— John Jay Hooker
We cannot hand our faith to one another ... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.
— John Jay Chapman
You have got to be good in that town if you want to beat the crowd.' So says young John on his first sight of New York City. THE CROWD (1928)
— Steven Jay Schneider
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
The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.
— John Jay Hooker
There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
— John Jay Chapman
On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.
— John Jay Hooker
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
— John Jay Chapman
There can be no stewardship without stewards.
— John Jay Jackson Jr.
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
— John Jay Chapman
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
— 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
Too much agreement kills the chat.
— John Jay Chapman
When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.
— Daniel Webster
Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.
— John Jay Chapman
When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.
— 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
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
You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.
— John Jay Chapman
Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.
— John Jay Chapman
I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.
— John Kricfalusi
There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.
— John Jay Chapman
So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.
— John Jay Chapman
Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
— John Jay Chapman
I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
— John Jay Chapman
Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.
— John Jay Chapman
All progress is experimental.
— John Jay Chapman
Sen. Frist has every right, and indeed the duty, to see that every presidential nominee for the Federal bench at every level gets an up or down vote.
— John Jay Hooker
As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.
— John Jay Chapman
Through my questions, you will learn to teach yourselves.
— John Jay Osborn Jr.
Life is a great experience. Dignity is a treasure.
— John Jay Hooker
The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.
— John Jay Chapman
It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.
— John Jay Chapman
If the guy across from me was a cherry-red Ferrari, then I was a rusted-out and battered John Deere tractor in comparison.
— Jay Crownover
The trouble with entering the upper echelon is you have to work harder to stay there.
— John Jay Osborn Jr.