"A friend in power is a friend lost." -- Henry Brooks Adams; The education of Henry Adams (1907) Ch.7

"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts." -- Henry Brooks Adams -- Henry Brooks Adams; The education of Henry Adams (1907) Ch.22

"Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds." -- Henry Brooks Adams; The Education of Henry Adams, ch. 1 (1907)
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"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts". -- Henry Brooks Adams; The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography, 1918
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I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down. -- Henry Brooks Adams; The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma, 1919
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