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James F. Cooper has 73 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports…
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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in…
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Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations…
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty
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Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of…
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The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who…
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The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
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No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
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Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.
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Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
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Little said is soonest mended.
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I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other.
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Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.
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The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.
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And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
— Walter Scott
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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.
— Walter Savage Landor
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