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Thomas Cooper Quotes

A garden is never so good as it will be next year.

A garden is never so good as it will be next year.

Thomas Cooper
Time, Garden, Years

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

Thomas Cooper
Power, Law, Liberty
Thomas Cooper (1830). “A treatise on the law of libel and the liberty of the press: showing the origin, use, and abuse of the law of libel”, p.9

Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition, and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

Thomas Cooper
Truth, Religion, Doctrine
Thomas Cooper (1829). “Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy ...”, p.375

Knowledge is a plant of slow growth.

Thomas Cooper
Growth, Plant, Slow Growth
Thomas Cooper (1812). “The Introductory Lecture of Thomas Cooper, Esq: Professor of Chemistry at Carlisle College, Pennsylvania”, p.4