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Political Quotes by Henry Adams
- Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
- It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
- Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
- No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
- Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
- The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
- Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed…
- Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
- You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!
- As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.
- Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.
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