Quote by James Bryce
The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word

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

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

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Books
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Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong. – James Bryce

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Patriot Day
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Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existance. – James Bryce

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Medicine
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. – H. L. Mencken

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Government

Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now. – Rick Perry

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Government

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. – Richard M. Nixon

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Government

The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies. – Bob Woodward

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Government

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If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. – Robert Frost

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Freedom

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. – Kate Chopin

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Trust

It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore dont come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country. – Dixie Lee Ray

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Age

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. – Katherine Mansfield

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Attitude