13 Quotations by Henry B. Adams
- 1. A friend in power is a friend lost.
- 2. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
- 3. American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anyth ...
- 4. As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly de ...
- 5. He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
- 6. Morality is a private and costly luxury.
- 7. No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
- 8. One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certai ...
- 9. Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
- 10. Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of ha ...
- 11. The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
- 12. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men
- 13. You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on ...
Henry B. Adams Quotes by Power Quotations
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