John Jay
John Jay
John Jaywas an American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, signer of the Treaty of Paris, and first Chief Justice of the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJudge
Date of Birth12 December 1745
CountryUnited States of America
secret enthusiasm taste
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.
people society problem
There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.
society new-testament criticize
You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.
business men worst-enemy
The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.
new-york powerful past
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
party magic curiosity
If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, -- then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.
life teacher teaching
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
character long half
It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.
years political world
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
love dog philosophy
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.
hatred unity politics
Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
government outcomes virtue
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
character men ideas
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the author's control, and to ideas imposed on him by his vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations - with any conceivable output of the human mind of which you approve. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.
intelligent earth want
I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.