James Bryce Quotes - Page 2

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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 one purpose or obey one will so that instead of making steady way the vessel may pursue a devious or zigzag course, and sometimes merely turn round and round in the water.

  James Bryce

  Government, Water, Unity

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• If you have enough room for your books, you don't have enough books.

  James Bryce

  Book, Rooms, Enough

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• When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

  James Bryce

  Book, Waste, Poor

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• Life is too short for reading inferior books.

  James Bryce

  Life Is Too Short, Reading, Book

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• 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 civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth - matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.

  James Bryce

  Equality, Thinking, Rights

  James Bryce Bryce (1888). “The American Commonwealth”, Ams PressInc

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• Perhaps the most typically American place in America.

  James Bryce

  Cities, America, Chicago

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