Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. — James F. Cooper Appreciated 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
Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark? — James F. Cooper Dark 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 Democracy Copy Share Image
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. — James F. Cooper Bears Copy Share Image
The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble. — James F. Cooper Blood 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 press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. — James F. Cooper Accord Copy Share Image
We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between… — James F. Cooper Appreciate Copy Share Image
Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to… — James F. Cooper Agents Copy Share Image
As reason and revelation both tell us that this state of being is but a preparation for another of a still higher… — James F. Cooper Balance 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
A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth. — James F. Cooper Death Copy Share Image
