James Fenimore Cooper Famous Quotes
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
"The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity."
James Fenimore Cooper Quotations
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Zadok Rabinwitz
"We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand."
Jennie Jerome Churchill
"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal."
Richard Adams
"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work."
H L Hunt
"There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all"
William Hart Coleridge
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
Larry McMurtry
"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong."
John G Riefenbaker
"This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit."
William Shakespeare
"Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy."
Robertson Davies
"We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up."
Jesse Louis Jackson