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Life is too short to read inf...

Life is too short to read inferior books.

James Bryce 37 quotes

Medicine, the only profession...

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

James Bryce 37 quotes

There is in the American Gove...

There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one will so that instead of making steady way the vessel may pursue a devious or zigzag course, and sometimes merely turn round and round in the water.

James Bryce 37 quotes

Individualism, the love of en...

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

James Bryce 37 quotes

In Europe we have cities weal...

In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature.

James Bryce 37 quotes

An eminent American is report...

An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.

James Bryce 37 quotes

Of all the differences betwee...

Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe, half the internal troubles that have vexed European States... have arisen from theological differences or from the rival claims of Church and State. This whole vast chapter of debate and strife has remained virtually unopened in the United States. There is no Established Church. All religious bodies are equal before the law, and unrecognized by the law, except as voluntary associations of private citizens.

James Bryce 37 quotes

Three-fourths of the mistakes...

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

James Bryce 37 quotes

The presence of the blacks is...

The presence of the blacks is the greatest evil that threatens the United States. They increase, in the Gulf States, faster than do the whites. They cannot be kept for ever in slavery, since the tendencies of the modern world run strongly the other way. They cannot be absorbed into the white population, for the whites will not intermarry with them, not even in the North where they have been free for two generations. Once freed, they would be more dangerous than now, because they would not long submit to be debarred from political rights. A terrible struggle would ensue.

James Bryce 37 quotes

It is accepted as an axiom by...

It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ought to leave these matters entirely on one side, regarding them no more than it regards the artistic or literary pursuits of the citizens.

James Bryce 37 quotes

I have often asked Americans ...

I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth - matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.

James Bryce 37 quotes

When you find that a book is ...

When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

James Bryce 37 quotes

The People, though we think o...

The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.

James Bryce 37 quotes

The national park is the best...

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

James Bryce 37 quotes

The ordinary American voter d...

The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,' and does not value, because he sees no need for, originality or profundity, a fine culture or a wide knowledge.

James Bryce 37 quotes

Life is too short for reading...

Life is too short for reading inferior books.

James Bryce 37 quotes

Our country is not the only t...

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

James Bryce 37 quotes

Patriotism consists not in wa...

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

James Bryce 37 quotes

Three-fourths of the mistakes...

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

James Bryce 37 quotes

Medicine, the only profession...

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.

James Bryce 37 quotes

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