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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

#aim #being #citizen #freedom #freeman

Marriage is like a formality for me. ↗

— David Copperfield

#like #marriage #me

Something about you now I can't quite figure out Everything she does is beautiful Everything she does is right Cause it's you and me and all of the people With nothing to do, nothing to lose And it's you and me and all of the people And I don't know why I can't keep my eyes off of you. ↗

— Lifehouse

#you-and-me #beauty

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

#better #christian #coat #code #creatures

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#effects #exceptions #general #particular #systems

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

#any #business #consulting #control #embrace

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#ambition #american #common #effect #faults

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

#does #majority #matter #mend #nor

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

— James F. Cooper

#democracies #mediocrity #tendency #things

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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