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“People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this,—that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.”

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John Jay Chapman

Source: Practical Agitation (1900), Chapter 7

“Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.”

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Memories and Milestones, Ch. 12: "President Eliot" HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?id=gFEPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22every+generation+is+a+secret+society+and+has+incommunicable+enthusiasms+tastes+and+interests+which+are+a+mystery+both+to+its+predecessors+and+to+posterity%22&pg=PA184#v=onepage (1915)

“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.”

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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.”

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John Jay Chapman

Source: Practical Agitation (1900), Chapter 1

“Good government is the outcome of private virtue.”

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Source: Practical Agitation (1900), Chapter 2

“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.”

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Source: Practical Agitation (1900), Chapter 1

“Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.”

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Source: Practical Agitation (1900), Chapter 7

“When a man talks with absolute sincerity and freedom he goes on a voyage of discovery. The whole company has shares in the enterprise.”

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Society http://books.google.com/books?id=O0hAAAAAYAAJ&q=%22When+a+man+talks+with+absolute+sincerity+and+freedom+he+goes+on+a+voyage+of+discovery+The+whole+company+has+shares+in+the+enterprise%22&pg=PA64#v=onepage, Causes and Consequences (1898)