All progress is experimental.

Quote by John Jay Chapman

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

There are lots of people who can't think seriously without injuring their brains

There are lots of people who can't think seriously without injuring their brains

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our...

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our...

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift...

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift...

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking...

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking...

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics...

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics...

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a...

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a...

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

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

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if...

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if...

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

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

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

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

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a...

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a...

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift...

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift...

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We...

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We...

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning...

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning...

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it...

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it...

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political...

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political...

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as...

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as...

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have...

I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have...