James F. Cooper Quotes

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• All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

  James F. Cooper

  Character, Greatness, Men

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Essay by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

  James F. Cooper

  Lonely, Nature, Earth Day

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• Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.

  James F. Cooper

  Government, Enemy, Society

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• Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

  James F. Cooper

  Party, Purpose, Politics

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

  James F. Cooper

  Hope, Fancy, Humans

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• It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

  James F. Cooper

  Men, Evil, Dies

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• Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

  James F. Cooper

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ignorance

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• The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.

  James F. Cooper

  Country, Effort, Majority

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• The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

  James F. Cooper

  Mind, Lasts, Ability

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• Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

  James F. Cooper

  Political, Individuality, Liberty

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, "On Individuality", 1838.

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• 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 must drink and breathe and walk and therefore each man has a right to his share of each.

  James F. Cooper

  Men, Air, Free Gifts

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• Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

  James F. Cooper

  Death, Night, Iron

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• If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

  James F. Cooper

  Tyrants, Newspapers, Tyranny

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• History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

  James F. Cooper

  Love, Hero, History

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• The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.

  James F. Cooper

  Book, Eye, Vastness

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• The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning, softness that "brings and shuts the day," while the whole air was filled with the carols of birds, the hymns of the feathered tribe.

  James F. Cooper

  Winning, Hymns, Air

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• Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked.

  James F. Cooper

  Country, Lying, Law

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• Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim.

  James F. Cooper

  Taught Us, Justice, Sublime

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

  James F. Cooper

  Religious, America, Different

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• I can't see no great difference atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, and givin' it up after a war, because we can't help it-unless it be that the last is the most manful and honourable.

  James F. Cooper

  War, Differences, Territory

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• We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.

  James F. Cooper

  Differences, Appreciate, Merit

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• There are evils worse than death.

  James F. Cooper

  Evil

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• As reason and revelation both tell us that this state of being is but a preparation for another of a still higher and more spiritual order, all the interests of life are of comparatively little importance, when put in the balance against the future.

  James F. Cooper

  Spiritual, Order, Preparation

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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• The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him, a man who acts in corners, and avoids open and manly expositions of his course, calls blackguards gentlemen, and gentlemen folks, appeals to passions and prejudices rather than to reason, and is in all respects, a man of intrigue and deception, of sly cunning and management.

  James F. Cooper

  Passion, Humility, Men

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
  Equality of rights is a peculiar feature of democracies. These rights are properly divided into civil and political, though even these definitions are not to be taken as absolute, or as literally exact.

  James F. Cooper

  Military, Men, Law

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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