John Jay Chapman

John Jay Chapman (March 2, 1862 – November 4, 1933) was an American author.

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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 (1862–1933)

    Thank heaven for little girls!
    For little girls get bigger every day.
    —Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)

    The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practise politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.
    —John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)