James Bryce Quotes

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

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

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

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

Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.

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

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.

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

Life is too short for reading inferior books.

Life is too short to read inferior books.

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

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

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.

If you have enough room for your books, you don't have enough books.

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

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.'

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it