James Bryce Men Quotations

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

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

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.