Occupation: Writer Birth: September 15, 1789 Death: September 14, 1851
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 hi….
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, ….
Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitut….
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness..
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality..
It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names..
Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night..
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party..
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….
How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and….
The Americans... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the ha….
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 t….
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'o….
Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship thes….
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. I….
We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superior….
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..
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore..
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. Unrestrained political authority, t….
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights….
The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind..