James F. Cooper Quotes

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• Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
• Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and…
• Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat…
• Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations in a popular…
• Individuality is the aim of political liberty
• Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom…
• The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so…
• The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
• The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
• No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
• Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.
• Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
• A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath…
• There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
• I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may…
• We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature, gleamings…
• It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.
• Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.
• The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal;…
• If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights;…

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