Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States. — James F. Cooper 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, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character,… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party. — 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. Unrestrained political… — James F. Cooper 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 are not,… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. — 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 Copy Share Image
It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
