Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Quote by John Jay Chapman

Topics: Government Quotes

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

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...

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...

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

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 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.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

All progress is experimental.

All progress is experimental.

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...