James Fenimore Cooper Quotes

The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority

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.

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.

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.