James F. Cooper Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• 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.

  James F. Cooper

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

• The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.

  James F. Cooper

  Real, Democracy, Levels

• The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.

  James F. Cooper

  Freedom, Democracy, Majority

• The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

  James F. Cooper

  Freedom, Abuse, Democracy

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James F. Cooper (Conclusion, p. 191), 1838.

• The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

  James F. Cooper

  Democracy, Mediocrity, Tendencies

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