The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

Quote by Henry Brooks Adams

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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...

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

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

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

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

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean

Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of...

Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of...

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how...

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how...

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.

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...

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...

A friend in power is a friend lost.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the...

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the...

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity...

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity...

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

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...

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy...

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy...

Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.

Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra...

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra...

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Order is Heaven's first law

Order is Heaven's first law