"No wonder that, when a political career is……" — James Bryce
"No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident."
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James Bryce
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25 Quotes by James Bryce
James Bryce has 25 quotes on this site.
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Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
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Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and…
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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
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Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their…
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I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found…
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A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
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To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.
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There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have…
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Perhaps the most typically American place in America.
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Life is too short for reading inferior books.
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Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he…
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The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many…
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More Accident Quotes
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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
— Lauren Bacall
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
— Henry Adams
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you…
— Roseanne Barr
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at…
— Joe Barton
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do,…
— Bono
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It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's…
— Bono
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I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled…
— Kim Alexis
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