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Top 20 James Bryce Quotes (2025 Update)

James Bryce Quote: “Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.”

1. “Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.”

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James Bryce Quote: “The national park is the best idea America ever had.”

2. “The national park is the best idea America ever had.”

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James Bryce Quote: “The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.”

3. “The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.”

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James Bryce Quote: “Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.”

4. “Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.”

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James Bryce Quote: “To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.”

5. “To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.”

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James Bryce Quote: “Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.”

6. “Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.”

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James Bryce Quote: “Why then seek to complete in a few decades what took the other nations of the world thousands of years? Why, in your hurry to subdue and utilize nature, squander her splendid gifts? You have opportunities such as mankind has never had before, and may never have again.”

7. “Why then seek to complete in a few decades what took the other nations of the world thousands of years? Why, in your hurry to subdue and utilize nature, squander her splendid gifts? You have opportunities such as mankind has never had before, and may never have again.”

— James Bryce

James Bryce Quote: “No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.”

8. “No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.”

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James Bryce Quote: “The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.”

9. “The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.”

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James Bryce Quote: “Perhaps the most typically American place in America.”

10. “Perhaps the most typically American place in America.”

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James Bryce Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— James Bryce

James Bryce Quote: “Life is too short to read inferior books.”

12. “Life is too short to read inferior books.”

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James Bryce Quote: “The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls ‘magnetic,’ and does not value, because he sees no need for, originality or profundity, a fine culture or a wide knowledge.”

13. “The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls ‘magnetic,’ and does not value, because he sees no need for, originality or profundity, a fine culture or a wide knowledge.”

— James Bryce

James Bryce Quote: “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...”

14. “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...”

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James Bryce Quote: “California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.”

15. “California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.”

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James Bryce Quote: “The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.”

16. “The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.”

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James Bryce Quote: “A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.”

17. “A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.”

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James Bryce Quote: “The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.”

18. “The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.”

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James Bryce Quote: “Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.”

19. “Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.”

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James Bryce Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— James Bryce

James Bryce Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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James Bryce Quote: “If you have enough room for your books, you don’t have enough books.”

22. “If you have enough room for your books, you don’t have enough books.”

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James Bryce Quote: “It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ought to leave these matters entirely on one side, regarding them no more than it regards the artistic or literary pursuits of the citizens.”

23. “It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ought to leave these matters entirely on one side, regarding them no more than it regards the artistic or literary pursuits of the citizens.”

— James Bryce

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