Cooper Fired

Famous quotes containing the words cooper and/or fired:

“The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

“Cursed be the hand that fired the shot,
The frenzied brain that hatched the plot,
Thy country’s Father slain
By thee, thou worse than Cain!”
—Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903)