Quotes
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.
Henry B. Adams
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Henry B. Adams
Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Henry B. Adams
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Henry B. Adams
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry B. Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry B. Adams
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.