James Bryce

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.

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

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

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.

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 what he thinks he knows.

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

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

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

If you have enough room for your books you dont have enough books.

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.