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.
More Quotes from James F. Cooper:
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.James F. Cooper
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
James F. Cooper
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
James F. Cooper
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
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.
James F. Cooper
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
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: abstain, accumulating, fortifying, inequalities, unavoidable'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
Isaac Watts
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman
I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.
John Tesh