No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much. James Bryce More Quotes by James Bryce More Quotes From James Bryce Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. James Bryce memorial-daypeacecountry 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 naturedreameurope The national park is the best idea America ever had. James Bryce natureamericaideas Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace. James Bryce communicationunderstandingkeys The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. James Bryce life-lessonreadingbook Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. James Bryce warpeacecountry Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows. James Bryce mistakementhinking 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 libertyprideamerica There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut. James Bryce viewsdoorsmen 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 strugglerunningtwo To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking. James Bryce ignorancepeoplethinking The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time by the gang of unscrupulous adventurers who are now in possession of the Government of the Turkish Empire. They hesitated to put it in practice until they thought the favorable moment had come, and that moment seems to have arrived about the month of April. James Bryce empiresgovernmentpractice Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. James Bryce practice-of-medicinescienceamerica California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital. James Bryce san-franciscocaliforniacountry 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. James Bryce politicalcareersmen The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies. James Bryce historicalusehistory A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature. James Bryce qualitypoliticalcareers 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 equalityrightsthinking Life is too short for reading inferior books. James Bryce life-is-too-shortreadingbook 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 mediocritycultureneeds
