John Jay Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By John Jay
Too many in your state [Pennsylvania], as in this [New York], love pure democracy dearly. They seem not to consider that pure democracy, like pure rum, easily produces intoxication, and with it a thousand mad pranks and fooleries. — John Jay
We must go home to be happy, and our home is not in this world. Here we have nothing to do but our duty. — John Jay
It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it. — John Jay
Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed. — John Jay
Those who own the country ought to govern it. — John Jay
Among the many objects to which a wise and free people find it necessary to direct their attention, that of providing for their safety seems to be the first. — John Jay
The wise and the good never form the majority of any large society and it seldom happens that their measures are uniformly adopted ... [All that wise and good men can do is] to persevere in doing their duty to their country and leave the consequences to him who made men only; neither elated by success, however great, nor discouraged by disappointments however frequent or mortifying. — John Jay
Among the strange things of this world, nothing seems more strange than that men pursuing happiness should knowingly quit the right and take a wrong road, and frequently do what their judgments neither approve nor prefer. — John Jay