Wyandotte Quotes

“A great deal of undigested morality is uttered to the world, under the disguise of a pretended public virtue. In the eye of reason, the man who deliberately and voluntarily contracts civil engagements is more strictly bound to their fulfilment, than he whose whole obligations consist of an accident over which he had not the smallest control, that of birth ; though the very reverse of this is usually maintained undei the influence of popular prejudice.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte

“Nothing is really patriotic, however, that is not strictly true and just; any more than it is paternal love to undermine the constitution of a child by an indiscriminate indulgence in pernicious diet.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte

“One of the misfortunes of a nation, is to hear little besides its own praises.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte