"Our country is not the only thing to……" — James Bryce
"Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."
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James Bryce
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25 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.
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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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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.
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You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance.…
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What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve…
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— James Bryce
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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