Creative Quotations from . . .
Henry Brooks Adams
(1838-1918) born on Feb 16
US "historian, author". "He won a Pulitzer for "Education of Henry Adams," 1919."
 
   
F
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

R
"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."
A
"As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore."
N
"Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
K
Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""The Education of Henry Adams," 1907."
R: "In "Correct Quotes for DOS," WordStar International, 1991."
A: "Letter, 17 Dec. 1908."
N: ""The Education of Henry Adams," 1907."
K: ""The Education of Henry Adams," ch. 28, 1907."



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