Henry AdamsA collection of 28 posts

Trust

The press is the hired agent of a monied system and set up for no other purpose...

Travel

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it ...

Teacher

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

Society

American society is a sort of flat fresh-water pond which absorbs silently wit...

Power

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power and the human race ...

Politics

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics

Politics as a practise whatever its professions has always been the systemati...

Politics

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Politics

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Politics

Politics as a practice whatever its professions has always been the systemati...