The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye. — James F. Cooper Book Copy Share Image
On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. — James F. Cooper Creativity Copy Share Image
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. — James F. Cooper Character Copy Share Image
No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is. — James F. Cooper Astronomy Copy Share Image
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. — James F. Cooper Bears Copy Share Image
The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. — James F. Cooper Families Copy Share Image
The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength. — James F. Cooper Death Copy Share Image
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. — James F. Cooper Abuse Copy Share Image
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party. — James F. Cooper Law Copy Share Image
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest,… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from… — James F. Cooper America Copy Share Image
Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of… — James F. Cooper Aristocracy Copy Share Image
Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things… — James F. Cooper Christ Copy Share Image
On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to… — James F. Cooper Antiquity Copy Share Image
The Americans... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose… — James F. Cooper Americans Copy Share Image
New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but… — James F. Cooper Belonging Copy Share Image
One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that… — James F. Cooper Blessing Copy Share Image
How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness,… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.… — James F. Cooper Abuse Copy Share Image
The habit of seen the public rule, is gradually accustoming the American mind to an interference with private rights that is slowly… — James F. Cooper Character Copy Share Image
Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a… — James F. Cooper Business Copy Share Image
The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball,… — James F. Cooper Animal Copy Share Image
It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean. — James F. Cooper Excellence Copy Share Image
The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts… — James F. Cooper Beast Copy Share Image
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
