Top Quotes & Sayings by William Jay Gaynor

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American politician William Jay Gaynor.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
William Jay Gaynor

William Jay Gaynor was an American politician from New York City, associated with the Tammany Hall political machine. He served as the 94th mayor of the City of New York from 1910 to 1913, and previously as a New York Supreme Court Justice from 1893 to 1909. As mayor he was noted as a reformer who broke ranks and refused to take orders from the Tammany boss Charles Francis Murphy.

You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God, that all good growth is slow growth.
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