James Bryce
James Bryce
dull
Goethe once said of someone, He is a dull man. If he were a book, I would not read him.
dull
Goethe once said of someone, He is a dull man. If he were a book, I would not read him.
constitution continue existence law practical remain seen substance words
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
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...
book environment pleasure-of-reading
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
mistake men thinking
Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.
pride liberty peculiar
Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.
science practice-of-medicine medical-profession
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
running struggle rights
The presence of the blacks is the greatest evil that threatens the United States. They increase, in the Gulf States, faster than do the whites. They cannot be kept for ever in slavery, since the tendencies of the modern world run strongly the other way. They cannot be absorbed into the white population, for the whites will not intermarry with them, not even in the North where they have been free for two generations. Once freed, they would be more dangerous than now, because they would not long submit to be debarred from political rights. A terrible struggle would ensue.
book waste poor
When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.
history historical use
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.
book life-is-too-short inferiors
Life is too short to read inferior books.
government giving democracy
No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.
government water unity
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.