James F. Cooper Quotes

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 F. Cooper

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 F. Cooper

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.

~ James F. Cooper

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

~ James F. Cooper

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

~ James F. Cooper

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

~ James F. Cooper

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 F. Cooper