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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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 People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution...

The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution...

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...

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile

Morality is a private and costly luxury

Morality is a private and costly luxury

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...

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...

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

They know enough who know how to learn.

They know enough who know how to learn.

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 man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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,...

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

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

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, 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.

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.