John Jay Quotes
Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed.

-John Jay
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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
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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 . . . Read more

-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
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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
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We must go home to be happy, and our home is not in this world. Here we have nothing to do but our duty.

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Those who own the country ought to govern it.

-John Jay
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It has often given my pleasure to observe, that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected fertile, wide-spreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty. Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a vari . . . Read more

-John Jay