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
It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength. — James F. Cooper Death Copy Share Image
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. — 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
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
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. — James F. Cooper Bears Copy Share Image
The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses… — James F. Cooper Democracies Copy Share Image
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends… — James F. Cooper 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 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
God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at… — James F. Cooper Deer Copy Share Image
The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning, softness that "brings and shuts the day,"… — James F. Cooper 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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. — James F. Cooper Families Copy Share Image
Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations… — James F. Cooper Balance Copy Share Image
A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of… — James F. Cooper Book Copy Share Image
Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking… — James F. Cooper Change 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,… — James F. Cooper 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Americans... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose… — James F. Cooper Americans Copy Share Image
New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but… — James F. Cooper Belonging Copy Share Image
Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often… — James F. Cooper 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
