Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Henry Brooks Adams Quotes Click here for Henry Brooks Adams books The Political Education of Henry Adams "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." "A period of twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an efficient Constitution; another twelve years of energy brought a reaction against the government then created; a third period of twelve years was ending in a sweep toward still greater energy; and already a child could calculate the result of a few more such returns." "Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it." "A friend in power is a friend lost." "The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies." "Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education." "Practical politics consists in ignoring facts." "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." "Even in America, 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." "Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself." "No historian can take part with— or against— the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics." "Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds." "The work of internal government has become the task of
controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men."
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