It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.


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

James Fenimore Cooper Quotes

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.