
“You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.”
John Jay Chapman, Practical Agitation (1900), ch.7
Misattributed
Letter to his parents (9 March 1943), from Simon Heffer, Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell (Phoenix, 1999), p. 75.
1940s
“You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.”
John Jay Chapman, Practical Agitation (1900), ch.7
Misattributed
Speech to Parliament https://www.british-history.ac.uk/commons-hist-proceedings/vol2/pp164-199 (22 May 1685)
Of Death.
Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849)
Context: Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure,
Crowned by consenting nations peerless queen of gayety:
She laugheth at the wrath of Ocean, she mocketh the fury of Vesuvius,
She spurneth disease, and misery, and famine, that crowd her sunny streets.
"Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray", Playboy (October 1965)