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During an election campaign th...

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

The work of internal governmen...

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

The new American, like the new...

The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Good men do the most harm....

Good men do the most harm.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Modern politics is, at bottom,...

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Politics are a very unsatisfac...

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

As a historian, he felt it his...

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Unity is vision; it must have ...

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

A senator is like a begonia - ...

A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

A boy's will is his life, and ...

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

He never labored so hard to le...

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence Ђ' of talking without meaning Ђ' is never effaced.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

The whole fabric of society wi...

The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Teachers affect eternity. Ther...

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Politics cannot stop to study ...

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Society is immoral and immorta...

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

If one shed tears, they must b...

If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

My rule in making up examinati...

My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

Whenever a man reaches the top...

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

It [love] is a disease to be b...

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

The proof that a philosopher d...

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.

Henry Adams 291 quotes

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