No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard,… — 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
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination. — 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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