Quotes by Chapman, John Jay

Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that tur >>

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drownin >>

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by >>

Quotations about Progress

Nothing recedes like progress. >>

All progress means war with society. >>

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease. >>

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

Chapman, John Jay