James F. Cooper Quotes About War

• I can't see no great difference atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, and givin' it up after a war, because we can't help it-unless it be that the last is the most manful and honourable.

  James F. Cooper

  War, Differences, Territory

• At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

  James F. Cooper

  War, Marine, Important

• It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide, and, apparently, an impervious boundary of forests, severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict.

  James F. Cooper

  War, Struggle, Book

  "The Last of the Mohicans". Book by James F. Cooper, 1826.

• There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.

  James F. Cooper

  War, Destiny, Men

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