James F. Cooper
James F. Cooper
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 September 1789
CountryUnited States of America
ocean novices indifference
The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.
dark men skins
Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?
civilization rights inseparable
If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.
christian lying school
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the pride and vanity of human reason enter into and pollute our worship, and the houses that should be of God and for God, alone, where he is to be honored with submissive faith, are too often merely schools of metaphysical and useless distinctions. The nation is sectarian, rather than Christian.
party purpose vicious
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
names needs asks
It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.
humans
We are all human, and all do wrong.
men white white-man
I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized...
warrior blood sight
The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.
men views media
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.
tyrants newspapers tyranny
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
cutting sea tree
What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?
democracy mediocrity tendencies
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
art military preparation
The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste