Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

John Jay

American Chief Justice U. S. Supreme Court

"Pride, arrogance and lust of conquest are the natural and bitter fruits of military preparation."

"The people who own the country ought to govern it."

"Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of government, and it is equally undeniable, that whenever and however it is instituted, the people must cede to it some of their natural rights in order to vest it with requisite powers."

"The only way to be loved is to be and to appear lovely; to possess and display kindness, benevolence, tenderness; to be free from selfishness and to be alive to the welfare of others. "

"No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. "