James F. Cooper said this quote

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