James Bryce
James Bryce
nature ideas america
The national park is the best idea America ever had.
dream europe cities
In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature...
country memorial-day peace
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
broad creating effort experts industry involving leaders provide standards value
Creating industry standards that provide real-world value is a collaborative effort involving experts and leaders from a broad cross-section of specialties,
thinking rights liberty
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.
country san-francisco california
California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.
book rooms enough
If you have enough room for your books, you don't have enough books.
men careers political
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.