James F. Cooper Quotes About Democracy

• Es un vicio acosador de las democracias sustituir la ley por la opinión pública. Esta es la forma habitual en que las masas de hombres exhiben su tiranía.

  James F. Cooper

  Libertad, Hombres, Las Democracias Tienen

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Libro de 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.

• La tendencia de las democracias es, en todas las cosas, a la mediocridad.

  James F. Cooper

  Democracia, Mediocridad, Tendencias

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