John Jay Chapman

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

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.

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of politics.

I love the character of Jaime Lannister. He's just so complex - a character that we love to hate - but it's a lot more complex than hatred. It starts off, and he seems so arrogant and so smug.