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Henry B. Adams
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Henry B. Adams
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Henry B. Adams
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
Henry B. Adams
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
Henry B. Adams
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Henry B. Adams
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Henry B. Adams
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry B. Adams
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
Henry B. Adams
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Henry B. Adams
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.