John Jay Chapman: Politics

John Jay Chapman was American author. Explore interesting quotes on politics.
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“The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.”

John Jay Chapman

Source: Practical Agitation (1900), Chapter 1

“A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.”

John Jay Chapman

Source: Practical Agitation (1900), Chapter 1

“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

Source: Practical Agitation (1900), Chapter 1