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.
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. - James Bryce
Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.
- James Bryce
Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace. - James Bryce
Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. - James Bryce
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
The national park is the best idea America ever had. - James Bryce
The national park is the best idea America ever had.
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. - James Bryce
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows. - James Bryce
Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. - James Bryce
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
Life is too short to read inferior books. - James Bryce
Life is too short to read inferior books.
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 … - James Bryce
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 …
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