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James F. Cooper

"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."

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Amber Hurdle

"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."

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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."

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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."

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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

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"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."

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Amber Hurdle

"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."

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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."

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Amber Hurdle

"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"

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James F. Cooper
"The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity."

Democracy

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

Power

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James F. Cooper
"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."

Happiness

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James F. Cooper
"All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities."

Government

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James F. Cooper
"Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other."

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James F. Cooper
"America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies."

Religion

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James F. Cooper
"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."

Business

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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."

Government

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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."

Power

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James F. Cooper
"Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party."

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