It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ought to leave these matters entirely on one side, regarding them no… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private… — 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
