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.

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

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  Men, Evil, Dies

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Ignorance

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

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  Lonely, Nature, Earth Day

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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.

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  Men, Air, Free Gifts

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• Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

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  Hope, Fancy, Humans

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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.

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  Government, Enemy, Society

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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.

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  Country, Lying, Law

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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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• Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

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  Mean, Rights, Government

  "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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• There are evils worse than death.

  James F. Cooper

  Evil

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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.

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  Mind, Lasts, Ability

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• In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.

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  Country, Kings, America

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

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  Book, Eye, Vastness

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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.

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  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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• 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.

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  Winning, Hymns, Air

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• Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?

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  Dark, Men, Skins

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• What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?

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  Cutting, Sea, Tree

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

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  Country, Effort, Majority

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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.

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  Differences, Appreciate, Merit

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• I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.

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  Book, Men, Doubt

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• Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

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  Appreciated, Exception, Particular

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• The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.

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  Real, Democracy, Levels

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

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  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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• The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.

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  Ocean, Novices, Indifference

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