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These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

James F. Cooper
Society, Thousand, Knows

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
Variables, Mutation, Language
"The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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
Christian, Suffering, Meals
"The American Democrat: The Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, p. 189, April 1, 2010.

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
New York, Thinking, United States

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
War, Marine, Important

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

James F. Cooper
Mother, Maturity, Animal

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

James F. Cooper
Truth, Scandal, Being True

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.

James F. Cooper
Freedom, Democracy, Majority

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
Men, Fire, Views
"The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper, 1838.

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