No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic… — 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
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was… — 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
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
One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the… — 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
![“[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the Philippines [...] We must slaughter a million or two foolish Malays in order to give them the comforts of flannel petticoats and electric railways.” quote by Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/437/henry-adams-1542_bed_regarding-us-conquest-of-the-philippines_482855.jpg)
