Phrase by '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.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper - American WriterAmerica , Social , Opinions , Colonies
The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper - American WriterForest , Past , America , American
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?
Author: James Fenimore Cooper - American WriterLife , Man , Truth , Religion
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.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper - American WriterNever , Man , Character , Greatness
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.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper - American WriterView , Important , Men , Fire
A 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.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper - American WriterOwn , Power , Government , Expensive
It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a reasonable degree of graphic effect, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the interest we all feel in personal adventure is, of itself, success.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper - American WriterFeel , Book , Success , Adventure
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.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper - American WriterWill , Opinion , Direction , Government
Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper - American WriterLong , Age , Knowledge , Parent
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.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper - American WriterGood , Political , Government , Inequality
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