American - Historian | February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry Adams
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
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Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
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Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
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The proper study of mankind is woman.
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The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
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The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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