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
These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. — James F. Cooper Families 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
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. — 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 press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. — 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
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning, softness that "brings and shuts the day,"… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War… — James F. Cooper History Copy Share Image
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in… — James F. Cooper Christian Copy Share Image
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses… — James F. Cooper Democracies Copy Share Image
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of… — James F. Cooper Democracies Copy Share Image
Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I can't see no great difference atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, and givin' it… — James F. Cooper Differences 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
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 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
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
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
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim… — 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed… — James F. Cooper Character Copy Share Image
Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest,… — James F. Cooper Affairs Copy Share Image
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
