Quotes by Viscount James Bryce

James Bryce believed that the Founders intended that the American President would be “a reduced and improved copy of the English king” (1885)

James Bryce tries to explain to a European audience why “great men” are no longer elected to America’s highest public office (1888)

Viscount Bryce reflects on how modern nation states which achieved their own freedom through struggle are not sympathetic to the similar struggles of other repressed peoples (1901)

Viscount Bryce on how the President in wartime becomes “a sort of dictator” (1888)

James Bryce on the Party Primaries and Conventions in the American political system (1888)

James Bryce on the autocratic oligarchy which controls the party machine in the American democratic system (1921)