James F. Cooper's Profile
Brief about James F. Cooper: By info that we know James F. Cooper was born at 1970-01-01. And also James F. Cooper is American Novelist.
Some James F. Cooper's quotes. Goto "James F. Cooper's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Character, Greatness, HimAll 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.
Tags: Good, Government, PoliticalIt is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Tags: Law, Men, OpinionCandor 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.
Tags: Good, Honest, MindAmerica owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
Tags: America, Opinions, SocialSlavery 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.
Tags: Christian, Enjoy, SufferingThe 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.
Tags: Business, Control, LifeWhenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
Tags: Direction, Government, OpinionIgnorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
Tags: Bear, Close, IgnoranceIt is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
Tags: Evil, Good, NatureNo civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
Tags: Law, Power, SocietyParty leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
Tags: Corrupt, Party, PurposeSystems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
Tags: Effects, General, SystemsThe common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
Tags: Ambition, American, LanguageThe disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
Tags: Matter, Nor, PowerThe tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
Tags: Mediocrity, TendencyA monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
Tags: Cannot, Government, PowerIndividuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving 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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