283 Quotes by Henry Adams

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

General Grant seriously remarked to a particularly bright young woman that Venice would be a fine city if it were drained.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people