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“It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
“In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.”
—Gary Cooper (1901–1961)