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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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...

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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...

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

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

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...

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

They know enough who know how to learn.

They know enough who know how to learn.

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks...

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks...

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.

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...

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

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

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers,...

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a...

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a...

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...

The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising.

The product that will not sell without advertising will not sell profitably with advertising.

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or...

Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or...

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show...

Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show...