The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. - "John Jay Chapman"

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
John Jay Chapman

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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.
- John Jay Chapman
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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.
- John Jay Chapman