No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is. — James F. Cooper Astronomy Copy Share Image
The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye. — James F. Cooper Book Copy Share Image
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. — James F. Cooper Character Copy Share Image
On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. — James F. Cooper Creativity 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
The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. — 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
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. — James F. Cooper 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
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
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
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in… — James F. Cooper Adversity 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
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing… — James F. Cooper America Copy Share Image
Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of… — James F. Cooper Animal Copy Share Image
The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense,… — James F. Cooper Book Copy Share Image
All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills… — James F. Cooper Book 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
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
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
One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that… — James F. Cooper Blessing 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
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
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
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with… — James F. Cooper America Copy Share Image
It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean. — James F. Cooper Excellence Copy Share Image
These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. — James F. Cooper Families Copy Share Image
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
The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. — James F. Cooper Bears Copy Share Image
