18 ordspråk av James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country.
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Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true
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If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own
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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.
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Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty
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It 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.
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On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.
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Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.
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Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?
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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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The Americans . . . are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.
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The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority
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The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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