Quote by James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

• How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.

• If newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.