Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
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America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.James F. Cooper
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
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The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
James F. Cooper
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
James F. Cooper
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
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