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… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between the Old World and the New, this is perhaps the most salient. Half the wars of Europe, half the internal troubles that have vexed European States... have arisen from theological differences or from the rival claims of Church and State. This whole vast chapter of debate and strife has remained virtually unopened in the United… — James Bryce Copy Share
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. — James Bryce Copy Share Image
No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,'… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
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… — James Bryce Copy Share
To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking. — James Bryce Copy Share Image
It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
