No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there. — 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… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.” — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie.… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“I, too, like yourself was a good party man: my party was that of the Church; I was ultramontane. Your party system… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“the problem of life was as simple as it was classic. Politics offered no difficulties, for there the moral law was a… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed… — 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
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force,… — 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
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“In Paris and London he had seen nothing to make a return to life worth while; in Washington he saw plenty of… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still. — 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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