41 Quotes by James Bryce

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

Creating industry standards that provide real-world value is a collaborative effort involving experts and leaders from a broad cross-section of specialties,

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.

Life is too short to read inferior books.

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

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

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

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

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