Quotes of James Fenimore Cooper

“ How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy. ”

- James Fenimore Cooper

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Character

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

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History

“ You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die! ”

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Death

“ Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly. ”

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Education

“ Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly. ”

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Education

“ 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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Freedom

“ It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny. ”

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Annoying

“ The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. ”

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Ameliorate

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

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Arrangement

“ The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world. ”

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Business

“ A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it. ”

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Bearing

“ A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it. ”

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Bearing

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

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Bearing

“ I know but little of the customs of war, and wish to know less. ”

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Battle

“ A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it. ”

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Behaviour

“ Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman. ”

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Behaviour

“ All that a good government aims at...is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. ”

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Behaviour

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

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Bias

“ The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. ”

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Balance

“ Principles become modified in practise by facts. ”

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Basis

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

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Bent

“ The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. ”

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Bent

“ The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other. ”

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Barely

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

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Comprehensive

“ The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world. ”

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Consultation

“ I know but little of the customs of war, and wish to know less. ”

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Convention

“ All that a good government aims at...is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. ”

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Civil

“ 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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Civil

“ 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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Citizen

“ The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society. ”

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Citizen

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

“ You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die! ”

“ Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly. ”

“ Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly. ”

“ 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. ”

“ It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny. ”

“ The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. ”

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

“ The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world. ”

“ A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it. ”

“ A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it. ”

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

“ I know but little of the customs of war, and wish to know less. ”

“ A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it. ”

“ Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman. ”

“ All that a good government aims at...is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. ”

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

“ The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. ”

“ Principles become modified in practise by facts. ”

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

“ The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. ”

“ The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other. ”

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

“ The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world. ”

“ I know but little of the customs of war, and wish to know less. ”

“ All that a good government aims at...is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society. ”