Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.

- James F. Cooper

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

- James F. Cooper

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

- James F. Cooper

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…

- James F. Cooper

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

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

- James F. Cooper

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…

- James F. Cooper

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

- James F. Cooper

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

- James F. Cooper