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 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
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
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
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
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 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
