James F. Cooper Quotes - Page 5

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• Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.

  James F. Cooper

  Powerful, Men, Class

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• Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

  James F. Cooper

  Men, Unbroken, May

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• A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.

  James F. Cooper

  Book, Islands, Opposites

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• When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

  James F. Cooper

  Struggle, Men, Single Life

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• Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.

  James F. Cooper

  Variables, Mutation, Language

  "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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• 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 States.

  James F. Cooper

  New York, Thinking, United States

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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 tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

  James F. Cooper

  Christian, Suffering, Meals

  "The American Democrat: The Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, p. 189, April 1, 2010.

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• At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

  James F. Cooper

  War, Marine, Important

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• It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  James F. Cooper

  Men, Fire, Views

  "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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