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One Quotes by James F. Cooper
- Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
- They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man…
- The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in…
- New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United…
- The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary…
- The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man…
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