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.

Quote by John Jay Chapman

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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...

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...

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...

Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried...

Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried...

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...

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single...

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single...

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

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...

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...

All progress is experimental.

All progress is experimental.

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...

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.

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...

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those...

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those...

Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.

Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.

Good government is no substitute for self-government

Good government is no substitute for self-government