Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Quote by Henry Brooks Adams

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In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of...

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of...

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and...

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and...

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a...

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a...

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being,...

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being,...

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

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

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

They know enough who know how to learn.

They know enough who know how to learn.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one...

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one...

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has...

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has...

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take...

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take...

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is...

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is...

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so...

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so...

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to...

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to...

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many; and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many; and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we,...

I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we,...