Henry B Adams Quotes (22 quotations)
1. A friend in power is a friend lost. - Henry B Adams
2. Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. - Henry B Adams
3. Friends are born, not made. - Henry B Adams
4. He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. - Henry B Adams
5. In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man. - Henry B Adams
6. It is always good men who do the most harm in the world - Henry B Adams
7. Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces. - Henry B Adams
8. No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. - Henry B Adams
9. No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry B Adams
10. No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. - Henry B Adams
11. No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry B Adams
12. Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. - Henry B Adams
13. Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. - Henry B Adams
14. Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. - Henry B Adams
15. Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. - Henry B Adams
16. Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. - Henry B Adams
17. Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry B Adams
18. The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. - Henry B Adams
19. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men - Henry B Adams
20. There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. - Henry B Adams
21. They know enough who know how to learn. - Henry B Adams
22. You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout! - Henry B Adams
2. Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. - Henry B Adams
3. Friends are born, not made. - Henry B Adams
4. He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. - Henry B Adams
5. In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man. - Henry B Adams
6. It is always good men who do the most harm in the world - Henry B Adams
7. Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces. - Henry B Adams
8. No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. - Henry B Adams
9. No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry B Adams
10. No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. - Henry B Adams
11. No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry B Adams
12. Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. - Henry B Adams
13. Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. - Henry B Adams
14. Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. - Henry B Adams
15. Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. - Henry B Adams
16. Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. - Henry B Adams
17. Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry B Adams
18. The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. - Henry B Adams
19. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men - Henry B Adams
20. There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. - Henry B Adams
21. They know enough who know how to learn. - Henry B Adams
22. You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout! - Henry B Adams
