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James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper
American Writer
Born: Sep 15, 1789
Died: Sep 14, 1851
Good Government Law Man Political Power
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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 public opinion. James Fenimore Cooper
Government Will States Direction Given Having Shall Opinion Been False Up Whenever Break Break Up Public Public Opinion United United States Consequence
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. James Fenimore Cooper
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America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. James Fenimore Cooper
Owes Religious Exaggerated Colonies Most Instrumental Opinions Were America Establishing Different Which Social Prejudices
Individuality 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. James Fenimore Cooper
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I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination? James Fenimore Cooper
Life Truth Religion Man Sometimes Wish Imagination AIDS Philosopher Inseparable Purity Poetry Divest Higher Had He Abstract Conceive Catholic Principles Educated Been Affections Order Much Really Unite Necessarily
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. James Fenimore Cooper
Government Good Political Own Consequences Aid Add Increasing Aims Unnecessary Unavoidable Abstain Force Inequalities Inequality Accumulate Artificial Social Means Good Government
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 Fenimore Cooper
Suffering Better Meal Enjoy Christian Otherwise Our Ease Neighbor Plenty Wear Eat More Sinful Fellow Fellow Creatures Another Than Want While Coat Whole Code Creatures Slavery
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. James Fenimore Cooper
Democracy Law Tyranny Men Masses Opinion Exhibit Substitute Form Vice Which Public Public Opinion Usual
All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority. James Fenimore Cooper
Political Made Men Sense Recourse Sacrifices Individuals Combinations Majority Expense Common Whether Common Sense Plausible
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. James Fenimore Cooper
Good Man Quality Honest Man Mind Gentleman Frame Proof Both Equally Just Candor Breeding Tone Belongs Honest
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other. James Fenimore Cooper
Ignorance Other Relation Bear Superstition Mathematical Close Each Ever
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory. James Fenimore Cooper
Good Nature Man Political Feeling Neither One-Man Morals True Another Revealed Nor Effecting Personal Maxim Ends Flattering Theory Who Popular Boldly
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. James Fenimore Cooper
Systems General Exceptions Particular Effects Appreciated
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. James Fenimore Cooper
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It 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. James Fenimore Cooper
Good Nature Evil Aim Proper Most Principle Governing Which Agency Produce Productive
Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society. James Fenimore Cooper
Society Unlike Battles Rarely Discussed Bargain
I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches. James Fenimore Cooper
Day Word Too Gaze Visible Comprehensive Objects Paris Crowds Never Being Tire Them Speaking Views Bridges Night

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