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More from James Fenimore Cooper

  1. Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of other…

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  2. It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less …

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  3. The 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 …

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