War Quote by James Fenimore Cooper

“In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Deity, and with erecting temples…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“The deer that goes too often to the lick meets the hunter at last!”

— James Fenimore Cooper

“The air, the water, and the ground are free gifts to man, and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels.…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons.”

— James Fenimore Cooper

“And am I answerable that thoughtless and unprincipled men exist whose shades of contenance may resemble mine?”

— James Fenimore Cooper

“The tree blossoms, and bears its fruit, which falls, rots, withers, and even the seed is lost! Go, count the rings of the oak…

— James Fenimore Cooper

I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“When men speak, they should say that which does not go in at one side of the head and out at the other. Their…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“All places that the eye of heaven visits/ Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:/ Think not the king did banish thee:/…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“I look upon the redmen to be quite as human as we are ourselves, Hurry. They have their gifts, and their religion, it's true;…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“I want no thunder or lightning to remind me of my God, nor am I as apt to bethink on most of all His…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“I have attended church-service in the garrisons, and tried hard...to join in the prayers...but never could raise within me the solemn feelings and true…

— James Fenimore Cooper