Quote by James Bryce
He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a

He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a plain son of the people unaided by any gifts of fortune. – James Bryce

Other quotes by James Bryce

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows. – James Bryce

Category:
Mistakes
Read 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. – James Bryce

Category:
Government
Read Quote

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

Category:
Books
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Presidents Day
category

Well hath he been called one of the architects of civilization. – Newell Dwight Hillis

Category:
Presidents Day

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. – Thomas Jefferson

Category:
Presidents Day

To him was given the duty and responsibility of making that great classic of liberty, the Declaration of Independence, no longer an empty promise, but a glorious fulfillment. – William McKinley

Category:
Presidents Day

We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it. – John F. Kennedy, 1961

Category:
Presidents Day

Random Quotes

Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change – by using technology – but not change too much. – Daniel Greenberg

Category:
Technology

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
power

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. – Victor Borge

Category:
Violins

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. – Lionel Trilling

Category:
Obscurity