15 Quotations by James F. Cooper
- 1. A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly para ...
- 2. A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a cons ...
- 3. America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different se ...
- 4. Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that ...
- 5. Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of c ...
- 6. Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
- 7. Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action a ...
- 8. It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form i ...
- 9. It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engin ...
- 10. Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating part ...
- 11. Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while anot ...
- 12. The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely le ...
- 13. The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid ...
- 14. The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
- 15. The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office b ...
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