James Fenimore Cooper Quote

Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent in all that distinguishes the civilized man from the savage.


The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America (ed. 1838)


Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent...

Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent...

Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent...

Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent...