Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?

--JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, The Last of the Mohicans, Chapter 1

I hold it a sin to kill the second buck before the first is eaten.

--JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, The Last of the Mohicans, Chapter 18

The pale-faces are masters of the earth, and the time of the red-men has not yet come again.

--JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, The Last of the Mohicans, Chapter 33

The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste.

--JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, The Last of the Mohicans, Chapter 1

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

--JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, The Last of the Mohicans, Chapter 24

Nothing but vast wisdom and unlimited power should dare sweep men off in multitudes.

--JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, The Last of the Mohicans, Chapter 18

There are evils worse than death.

--JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, The Last of the Mohicans, Chapter 8

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

--JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, The Last of the Mohicans, Chapter 18

The gifts of our colors may be different, but God has so placed us as to journey in the same path.

--JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, The Last of the Mohicans, Chapter 33