If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas treewill… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If any one of us has had an ambition higher than that of making money; a motive better than that of expediency;… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American Senator, if he is truly… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If Washington were President now, he would have to learn our ways or lose his next election. Only fools and theorists imagine… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“One had heard and read a great deal about death, and even seen a little of it, and knew by heart the thousand commonplaces… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
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