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

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

“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

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

“to most people nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking”
― James Bryce

“Democracy really means nothing more or less than the rule of the whole people expressing their sovereign will by their votes.”
― James Bryce, The American Commonwealth, part 1

“A bold president who knew himself to be supported by a majority in the country, might be tempted to override the law, and deprive the minority of the protection which the law affords it. He might be a tyrant, not against the masses, but with the masses. But”
― James Bryce, The American Commonwealth, part 1

“The worth of a book is measured by what you carry away from it.”
― James Bryce

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

“America changes so fast that every few years a new crop of books is needed to describe the new face which things have put on, the new problems that have appeared, the new ideas germinating among her people, the new and unexpected developments for evil as well as for good of which her established institutions have been found capable.”
― James Bryce, The American Commonwealth, part 1

“The more democratic republics become,” Bryce wrote, “the more the masses grow conscious of their own power, the more do they need to live, not only by patriotism, but by reverence and self-control, and the more essential to their well being are those sources whence reverence and self-control flow.”
― James Bryce, The American Commonwealth, part 1

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

“The spirit of faction outlived the cause of faction, and became itself the new and prolific source of a useless, endless strife.”
― James Bryce