James Bryce, (1838-1922) British academic, jurist, historian and Liberal politician Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-2] of 2 James Bryce quotesJames Bryce QuotesJames Bryce Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.~ James Bryce I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth – matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.~ James Bryce Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print