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you find these words inspiring, we ask you to help us perpetuate the
legacy of Jeff Cooper with a gift to our Foundation. Your
gift is
entirely tax-deductible and will help us grow and expand our
scholarship program and insure that Jeff’s writings and personal
collections are kept intact, preserved and available to all.
Our
hope is to ensure that Jeff Cooper’s life’s work is commemorated
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appreciation for your support of our efforts.
Janelle Cooper, President
“Heroism
is never futile, for it is a thing of the soul, demonstrating
that man is more than just another animal. This is a truth
that needs emphasis in the dingy modern era, when the race’s
most basic values are under attack. Honor is, at last, all we
can take with us.”
-from Another
Country
“In
my experience, self-control is the answer to flaws of character.”
-from C
Stories
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“This
preoccupation with equality is another symptom of the degeneracy of The
Age of the Common Man. In the first place it is an illusion,
since men are not created equal, except in the political
sense. Everyone is better or worse than someone else in a
particular example of his capacities, and pretending that this is not
so is simply silly. Excellence, not mediocrity, should be
everyone’s goal, and it is hard to think of anything, from gardening to
crossword puzzles, at which someone may not excel.
“We
are still free in America
to study an art which many
believe is essential to the survival of political liberty.”
-from Shotluck
“’Disarmed’.
That’s the word. Taken aback, defeated, helpless, gelded,
stopped. Not citizens then, but serfs.”
-from Fireworks
“As
our civilization urbanizes, and as more and more of our young people
never set foot off the pavement, much less clean a fish, we can no
longer take for granted that our youth naturally and automatically
undertand the traditions which gave us this country, and which must be
maintained if we wish to keep it.”
-from To
Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth
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