The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engin...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating part...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of c...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office b...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a cons...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly para...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while anot...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely le...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different se...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action a...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form i...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that ...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not q...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than t...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; ...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts o...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER ...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civiliz...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER ...no civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the ...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER All that a good government aims at...is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering ...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors ar...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual for...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and princ...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted f...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its h...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one ...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the m...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER The tendencies of democracies are, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge and pri...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER If newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influenc...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the ...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER The principal advantage of a democracy, is a general elevation in the character of the people
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Individuality is the aim of political liberty
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER The Americans . . . are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER As bright examples of great qualities are but too uncommon among Christians, so are they singular an...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of ind...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the su...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to g...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than th...
JAMES F. COOPER Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that...
JAMES F. COOPER No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law...
JAMES F. COOPER A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a con...
JAMES F COOPER Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating part...
JAMES F. COOPER A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a cons...
JAMES F. COOPER They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering ...
JAMES F. COOPER Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action a...
JAMES F. COOPER A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly para...
JAMES F. COOPER Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while anot...
JAMES F. COOPER All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of it...
JAMES F. COOPER It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engin...
JAMES F. COOPER Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and ...
JAMES F. COOPER It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form...
JAMES F. COOPER America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different se...
JAMES F. COOPER They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering ...
JAMES F. COOPER The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely le...
JAMES F. COOPER The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office b...
JAMES F. COOPER In America, it is indispensable that every well-wisher of true liberty should understand that acts o...
JAMES F. COOPER It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted f...
JAMES F. COOPER Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of c...
JAMES F. COOPER Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized ...
JAMES F. COOPER I've never been a Burger King person. I'm a total McDonald's person.
ANDERSON COOPER My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that's procrastination.
RON COOPER I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It...
ANDERSON COOPER So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next c...
JACKIE COOPER I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like ...
JACKIE COOPER The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personalit...
JACKIE COOPER In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
JACKIE COOPER So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the pe...
JACKIE COOPER I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of me...
JACKIE COOPER But I want to do good work, after this series.
JACKIE COOPER But the working I would always want to do.
JACKIE COOPER A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.
JACKIE COOPER I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock a...
JACKIE COOPER Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and the...
JACKIE COOPER From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.
JACKIE COOPER I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them...
JACKIE COOPER So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
JACKIE COOPER So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
JACKIE COOPER There was only so much television you could do.
JACKIE COOPER To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
JACKIE COOPER They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
JACKIE COOPER People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they n...
JACKIE COOPER A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
JACKIE COOPER They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.
JACKIE COOPER There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
JACKIE COOPER So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go a...
JACKIE COOPER I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the dire...
JACKIE COOPER They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs becau...
JACKIE COOPER If it's boring, then it's tiring.
JACKIE COOPER There are some people who are Burger King people, and there are some people who are McDonald's p...
ANDERSON COOPER I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like tha...
BRADLEY COOPER Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
JIM COOPER It's probably the worst basketball we've played all year, and it couldn't have come at a worse time....
AL COOPER I think the team was so happy for playing a good half that they forgot we had 16 more minutes to pla...
AL COOPER That's heroic stuff. We knew he'd be (our top player as a freshman) and he's worked hard to develop....
AL COOPER We've got some question marks with regards to pitching. (But) we're a lot more than just (Clark). We...
AL COOPER I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't...
BRADLEY COOPER At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
JILLY COOPER The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.
GARY COOPER I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had...
GARY COOPER The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.
GARY COOPER In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
GARY COOPER I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks ...
JILLY COOPER You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city wi...
ALICE COOPER A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of...
PETER COOPER There is nothing sadder to see people who lived a good decent life dead on the side of the road. I u...
ANDERSON COOPER I'm not showing tight shots of rotting corpses. We've tried to be respectful. We don't want anyone t...
ANDERSON COOPER She's still out there. There are rats roaming around, and I wonder if no one knows who this woman is...
ANDERSON COOPER Hell yes! I've been fighting the hard fight to try and get money, I KNEW this was gonna' happen and ...
ANDERSON COOPER These people deserve to have the world watching what is happening to them,
ANDERSON COOPER To me, those are the heroes of the story. It was government that failed. It was people who stood up.
ANDERSON COOPER [Anyway,] Awkward T.V. Moments ... I decided at the last second that I just had to have my laptop. S...
ANDERSON COOPER I wouldn't call it looting. What I have seen is desperate people kind of wandering around here in do...
ANDERSON COOPER I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjo...
ANDERSON COOPER It's not happening, they're nowhere near the airport.
ANDERSON COOPER The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
ALICE COOPER Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor gam...
DON COOPER It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i...
MICHELLE COOPER Sometimes I wonder if I'm nothing more than the sum of who [my parents] were. Even worse, I worry th...
COOPER DAVIS So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said ...
TOMMY COOPER I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding pe...
ANDERSON COOPER All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do, ......
ALICE COOPER On the last day of school, it's the national anthem. On that day, it's the most popular song on the ...
ALICE COOPER This community cannot afford to go backwards we need to be moving ahead and moving together regardle...
ALICE COOPER If you blink your eyes or go get a Coke, you've missed 10 things,
ALICE COOPER Welcome to my nightmare. I think you're going to like it. There'll be some more when you come down.
ALICE COOPER If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a big...
ALICE COOPER He has a woman's name and wears makeup. How original.
ALICE COOPER Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call....
ALICE COOPER Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10.
ALICE COOPER it's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the p...
ANDERSON COOPER You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the wind...
TOMMY COOPER The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
JILLY COOPER People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a femal...
ALICE COOPER From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper ...
ALICE COOPER There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.
ALICE COOPER I wanted to be Amish when I was a kid. You just wear black and white - what could be better? One les...
ANDERSON COOPER When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, H...
ALICE COOPER I don't know if it's animalistic or what, but men become like peacocks with their feathers u...
BRADLEY COOPER The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because ...
ALICE COOPER Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a l...
ANDERSON COOPER What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why the...
ALICE COOPER Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is...
JIM COOPER Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough c...
ALICE COOPER I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.
TOMMY COOPER I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.
JILLY COOPER That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you al...
ANDERSON COOPER I have a cell phone that doesn't behave like a phone: It behaves like a computer that makes call...
ALAN COOPER I'm always pretty overworked with commercial illustration or design or animation.
DAVE COOPER The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.
ALICE COOPER I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, 'Have you got frog's legs?' He sai...
TOMMY COOPER Never too late to change your relationship with somebody in your life.
ANDERSON COOPER The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing...
ANDERSON COOPER I lose my wallet all the time, and I break my phone all the time.
ANDERSON COOPER Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.
JEFF COOPER So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a lib...
TOMMY COOPER Even if 99 percent of international air were stopped, every country would in all probability still b...
BEN COOPER I got, from my perspective, a random e-mail, 'Hi ... wanna put out a record?' I had to trace it back...
BEN COOPER Anyone who was impacted by Ken, if it's former players or parents of former players whose sons may l...
BEN COOPER I will give you my strong support, as I already have.
BEN COOPER City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and y...
ALICE COOPER You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones ...
DOMINIC COOPER You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an ind...
CHRIS COOPER Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my C...
BRADLEY COOPER Rooms are changing. Work is getting harder and there is more pain than there used to be in doing the...
AMANDA COOPER I was unaware they had set the preliminary hearing, but the district attorney's office has been in c...
AMANDA COOPER We'll be traveling on behalf of other Democratic governors as needed and as invited.
AMANDA COOPER They can use these skills for anything, whether they farm or not.
AMANDA COOPER It was never on his schedule, and I don't know how that (information) got out there. His (Richardson...
AMANDA COOPER Obviously it does raise more attention and get more coverage because it's New Hampshire.
AMANDA COOPER It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I'll use it. I'm...
JEANNE COOPER Rape is a crime of the heart for the victim, and a crime of convenience for the perpetrator. I was n...
ANDREA COOPER Ninety percent of the time, rape is done by someone you know. Not a creepy man in the alley.
ANDREA COOPER Everyone wanted to know why she did it. And I said because her boyfriend broke up with her. He was h...
ANDREA COOPER I saw no pulse but a gun in her hand to her neck.
ANDREA COOPER It's a great time to come out and enjoy the spring with your family. Show support of your community ...
ANDREA COOPER We're hoping to cover different decades over the last 50 or 60 years. We're trying a musical theme.
ANDREA COOPER You may remember going to Cherry Park and getting a little frog cookie. Gourmet Gardens is back, and...
ANDREA COOPER I enjoy music -- lots of different types of music. So I wanted to go with some kind of musical frog.
ANDREA COOPER