Henry Adams
Henry Adams
Henry Brooks Adamswas an American historian and member of the Adams political family, being descended from two U.S. Presidents...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 February 1838
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
men political good-man
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
witty science political-will
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
power political president
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
political use sticks
You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!
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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
political occasional duty
As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.
men political enemy
Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.
political beginnings-and-ends human-nature
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
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A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American Senator, if he is truly democratic; for democracy, rightly understood, is the government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of Senators, and there is always a danger that the British Minister may not understand this political principle as he should.
teacher giving parent
A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
philosophy order medicine
Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
few means slippery
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
man
A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.