Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

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• Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
• The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.
• The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may…
• What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
• Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation…
• One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.
• No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean
• If Thought is capable of beingclassed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, asa mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once under…

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