James F. Cooper Quotes About Freedom

Quotes about: Freedom

• 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 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.

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