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. — 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… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
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… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
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
