Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Quote by John Jay Chapman

Topics: Government Quotes

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.

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

He was a power politically for years, but he never got prominent enough t'have his...

He was a power politically for years, but he never got prominent enough t'have his...

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There...

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There...