"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 ..."
- 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."
"As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done."
- John Jay Chapman
"We cannot hand our faith to one another. ... Even in the Middle Ages when faith was theoretically uniform it was always practically individual."
"Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity."
"The trouble with entering the upper echelon is you have to work harder to stay there."
- John Jay Osborn Jr.