"Perhaps the most typically American place in America." — James Bryce
"Perhaps the most typically American place in America."
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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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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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California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
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