Quotes by Cooper, James F.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citiz >>

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment >>

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for >>

Quotations about Doctrine

The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambi >>

It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wa >>

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for >>

The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

Cooper, James F.