Quotes from James Bryce

Medicine is the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

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

The government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States.

Europeans often ask, and Americans do not always explain, how it happens that this great office [the presidency], the greatest in the world, unless we except the Papacy, to which any man can rise by his own merits, is not more frequently filled by great and striking men.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

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

He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a plain son of the people unaided by any gifts of fortune.

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

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

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

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.

Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.

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

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

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

Life is too short to read inferior books.

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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

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