Top 100 James Cooper Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About James Cooper

#1. In the days of Gary Cooper, James Stewart etc, film stars personified the better aspects of human nature.

#2. It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

#3. Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations in a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants.

James F. Cooper

#4. Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

James Fenimore Cooper

#5. Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.

James F. Cooper

#6. God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.

James F. Cooper

#7. The gifts of our colors may be different, but God has so placed us as to journey in the same path.

James Fenimore Cooper

#8. Only then did she pause to read Juniper's card.Professor James Moriarty. She slipped it into her reticule without another thought. The name meant nothing to her, except that he looked more like a James than an Arnold.

Emma Jane Holloway

#9. ...that dog is more to be trusted than many a Christian man; for he never forgets a friend, and loves the hand that gives him bread.

James Fenimore Cooper

#10. It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

James F. Cooper

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

James F. Cooper

#12. No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.

James F. Cooper

#13. The air, the water, and the ground are free gifts to man, and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink, breath, and walk - and therefore each has a right to his share of earth.

James Fenimore Cooper

#14. Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

James F. Cooper

#15. 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

#16. History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

James Fenimore Cooper

#17. They linger yet, Avengers of their native land." - Gray

James Fenimore Cooper

#18. Near the centre of that State of New York lies an extensive district of country, whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys.

James F. Cooper

#19. As reason and revelation both tell us that this state of being is but a preparation for another of a still higher and more spiritual order, all the interests of life are of comparatively little importance, when put in the balance against the future.

James F. Cooper

#20. It should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.

James Fenimore Cooper

#21. The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.

James F. Cooper

#22. Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.

James F. Cooper

#23. If a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an undersized opinion of himself.

James Fenimore Cooper

#24. An interesting fiction ... however paradoxical the assertion may appear ... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and principals, which is a primitive law of the human mind.

James Fenimore Cooper

#25. The woods are but the ears of the Almighty, the air is his breath, and the light of the sun is little more than a glance of his eye.

James Fenimore Cooper

#26. In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.

James F. Cooper

#27. All places that the eye of heaven visits/ Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:/ Think not the king did banish thee:/ But thou the king.
Richard II

James Fenimore Cooper

#28. Nothing but vast wisdom and onlimited power should dare sweep men off in multitudes,' he added; 'for it is only the one that can know the necessity of the judgement; and what is there short of the other, that can replace the creatures of the Lord?

James Fenimore Cooper

#29. I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.

Leslie Fiedler

#30. I care not for your envy, or your hypocrisy, or even for your human nature.

James Fenimore Cooper

#31. It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

James Fenimore Cooper

#32. No! You stay alive! Submit, do you hear? You're strong, you survive. You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you ... (Hawkeye / The Last of the Mohicans) 97

James Fenimore Cooper

#33. Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

James F. Cooper

#34. The turf shall be my fragrant shrine; My temple, Lord! that arch of thine; My censer's breath the mountain airs, And silent thoughts my only prayers. MOORE

James Fenimore Cooper

#35. A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.

James F. Cooper

#36. 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.

James F. Cooper

#37. Tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

James Fenimore Cooper

#38. Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas like drops of falling rain.

James Fenimore Cooper

#39. Tis a strange calling!' muttered Hawkeye, with an inward laugh, 'to go through life, like a catbird, mocking all the ups and downs that may happen to come out of other men's throats.

James Fenimore Cooper

#40. I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.

James Fenimore Cooper

#41. Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

James F. Cooper

#42. happy hunting-grounds

James Fenimore Cooper

#43. 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.

James F. Cooper

#44. At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution,

James F. Cooper

#45. The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.

James F. Cooper

#46. Else would my scalp long since have been drying in a Mingo wigwam.

James Fenimore Cooper

#47. Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?

James Fenimore Cooper

#48. Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.

James F. Cooper

#49. When men speak, they should say that which does not go in at one side of the head and out at the other. Their words shouldn't be feathers, so light that a wind which does not ruffle the water can blow them away.

James Fenimore Cooper

#50. Even the robin and the martin come back, year after year, to their old nests; shall a woman be less true hearted than a bird?

James Fenimore Cooper

#51. It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

James Fenimore Cooper

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

James F. Cooper

#53. The manner in which the Americans are subdivided into sects also conflicts with any commendable desire that may exist to build glorious temples in honor of the Deity: and convenience is more consulted than taste, perhaps, in all that relates to ecclesiastical architecture. Nevertheless,

James Fenimore Cooper

#54. Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.

James F. Cooper

#55. Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?

James F. Cooper

#56. My mother says I'm crazy, I'm not crazy, I just have a different way of looking at things.

James Kidd

#57. Principles ... become modified in practice, by facts.

James F. Cooper

#58. The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

James F. Cooper

#59. 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

#60. Too many!' James shouted, and slammed the door behind him.

Susan Cooper

#61. For flowers that will bloom in a garden will die on a heath ...

James Fenimore Cooper

#62. The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning, softness that "brings and shuts the day," while the whole air was filled with the carols of birds, the hymns of the feathered tribe.

James F. Cooper

#63. Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

James F. Cooper

#64. Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent in all that distinguishes the civilized man from the savage.

James F. Cooper

#65. A man without conscience is but a poor creature ...

James Fenimore Cooper

#66. The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball, even if it be at a bird or a squirrel; besides, it saves lead, for, when a body knows how to shoot, one piece of lead is enough for all, except hard-lived animals.

James F. Cooper

#67. Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.

James F. Cooper

#68. Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

James F. Cooper

#69. Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.

Jim Cooper

#70. 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.

James Fenimore Cooper

#71. 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.

James Fenimore Cooper

#72. I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to gaze at their views; the word not being too comprehensive for the crowds and groupings of objects that are visible from their arches.

James Fenimore Cooper

#73. ...the Evil Spirit delights more to dwell in an artful body, than in one that has no cunning to work upon.

James Fenimore Cooper

#74. ...nothing that crawls the earth is for my sport.

James Fenimore Cooper

#75. If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.

James F. Cooper

#76. If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

James F. Cooper

#77. The result of this conversation was a sudden determination to produce a work which, if it had no other merit, might present truer pictures of the ocean and ships than any that are to be found in the Pirate.

James Fenimore Cooper

#78. I look upon the redmen to be quite as human as we are ourselves, Hurry. They have their gifts, and their religion, it's true; but that makes no difference in the end, when each will be judged according to his deeds and not according to his skin.

James Fenimore Cooper

#79. We are all human, and all do wrong.

James Fenimore Cooper

#80. New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.

James F. Cooper

#81. A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

James F. Cooper

#82. My day has been too long. In the morning I saw the sons of the Unamis happy and strong; and yet, before the sun has come, have I lived to see the last warrior of the wise race of the Mohicans.

James Fenimore Cooper

#83. The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste

James Fenimore Cooper

#84. We live in a world of endless transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true.

James Fenimore Cooper

#85. Then he was wrong, Hurry; very wrong. A man can enjoy plunder peaceably nowhere.

James Fenimore Cooper

#86. A soul,
a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

James F. Cooper

#87. I can't see no great difference atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, and givin' it up after a war, because we can't help it-unless it be that the last is the most manful and honourable.

James F. Cooper

#88. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians and, although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians is you

James Baldwin

#89. The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.

James F. Cooper

#90. Patience is the greatest of virtues in a woodsman.

James Fenimore Cooper

#91. I'll tell you," she says, getting up. "I just need a drink. You want one?"
"Now?" Libby makes a face. "It's only midday."
"It's five o'clock somewhere in the world.

Rebecca James

#92. And am I answerable that thoughtless and unprincipled men exist whose shades of contenance may resemble mine?

James Fenimore Cooper

#93. There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.

James F. Cooper

#94. God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.

James Fenimore Cooper

#95. America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

James F. Cooper