All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
Es ist eine Untugend der Demokratien, dass sie das Gesetz durch die öffentliche Meinung ersetzen. Das ist die gängige Form, in der Menschenmassen ihre Tyrannei demonstrieren.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
Mancher ist schon mit dem Ausdrucke des Heldenmutes auf seinen Lippen heimgegangen, während sein Herz schwer und trostlos war.
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
Jeder Mensch kennt seine Wünsche, niemand aber kennt seine Kraft, ehe diese geprüft ist.
It´s hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.
Geduld ist eine Tugend des Indianers und bringt einem christlichen Weißen keine Schande.
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
So wie das Wasser, das aus einer Quelle fließt, im Winter nicht zu Eis erstarrt, so kann eine Freundschaft, die von Herzen kommt, nicht durch Unglück erkalten.
Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas like drops of falling rain.
Die gewöhnlichen Fehler der amerikanischen Sprache sind ein streben nach Effekten, ein Bedürnis nach Simplizität und ein geschwollener Missbrauch der Regeln.
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
Wird ein Bleichgesicht immer mit zwei Zungen erschaffen?
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
Die Demokratien tendieren in allen Dingen zur Mittelmäßigkeit.
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.
Jeder sagt es, und was jeder sagt muss wahr sein.
Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.
Mein Tag ist lang gewesen. Am Morgen sah ich die Söhne des Unamis glücklich und mächtig, und jetzt, noch ehe die Nacht hereingebrochen ist, muß ich noch leben, um den besten, weisesten und tapfersten Krieger unseres Geschlechts begraben zu sehen: den Letzten der Mohikaner!
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
Unwissenheit und Aberglauben stehen immer in einer engen mathematischen Relation zueinander.
An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and principals, which is a primitive law of the human mind.
Es ist eine Untugend der Demokratien, dass sie das Gesetz durch die öffentliche Meinung ersetzen. Das ist die gängige Form, in der Menschenmassen ihre Tyrannei demonstrieren.
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
Sollten wir Menschen misstrauen, weil sie andere Sitten haben und ihre Haut dunkel ist?
I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.
Jeder Mensch kennt seine Wünsche, niemand aber kennt seine Kraft, ehe diese geprüft ist.
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
Grundsätze... werden in der Praxis durch die Tatsachen geändert.
Then as to churches, they are good, I suppose, else wouldn't good men uphold' em. But they are not altogether necessary. They call 'em the temples of the Lord; but, Judith, the whole 'arth is a temple of the Lord to such as have the right mind. Neither forts nor churches make people happier of themselves. Moreover, all is contradiction in the settlements, while all is concord in the woods. Forts and churches almost always go together, and yet they're downright contradictions; churches being for peace, and forts for war. No, no--give me the strong places of the wilderness, which is the trees, and the churches, too, which are arbors raised by the hand of nature.
Individualismus ist die Sünde der politischen Freiheit.
All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.
Gewohnheit ist der dickste Leim, den ich kenne.
Tis a strange calling!’ muttered Hawkeye, with an inward laugh, ‘to go through life, like a catbird, mocking all the ups and downs that may happen to come out of other men’s throats.
Und wenn unsere Träume wahr würden, auch dann würden wir noch Enttäuschung fühlen.
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
Nothing but vast wisdom and onlimited power should dare sweep men off in multitudes,' he added; 'for it is only the one that can know the necessity of the judgement; and what is there short of the other, that can replace the creatures of the Lord?
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
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.
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
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 important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.
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