General Liberty Quotes by James Bryce

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• 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.
• The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
• Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but…
• I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able…
• A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
• To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.
• There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose…
• Perhaps the most typically American place in America.
• Life is too short for reading inferior books.
• Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.
• The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of…

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