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Letter "J" » James Bryce Quotes
«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.»
Author: James Bryce
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
allegiance, flag, flag waving, owed, righteous, waving
«Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence»
«We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same»
Author: James Bryce
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
American Constitution
«Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.»
Author: James Bryce
«There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787 It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.»
Author: James Bryce
| Keywords:
hearty, pervades, Puritanism, resolved, The View, transgressor, transgressors
«A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature»
Author: James Bryce
| Keywords:
basest
«Goethe once said of someone, He is a dull man. If he were a book, I would not read him.»
Author: James Bryce
| Keywords:
Goethe
«The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.»
Author: James Bryce
| Keywords:
carry away
«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.»
Author: James Bryce
| Keywords:
hesitate
«Creating industry standards that provide real-world value is a collaborative effort involving experts and leaders from a broad cross-section of specialties,»
Author: James Bryce
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