James Bryce
James Bryce
needs culture mediocrity
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.
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.
book environment pleasure-of-reading
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
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.
communication keys understanding
Communication is the key to education, understanding and peace.
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.