Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of a forest, child?
James F. CooperThe American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.
James F. CooperHistory, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
James F. CooperWhenever 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.
James F. Cooper