Quote #24

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

More from Henry Adams

  1. Morality is a private and costly luxury.
  2. Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
  3. He had often noticed that six months' oblivion amounts to newspaper-death, and that resurrection is rare. Nothing is easier, if a man wants…
  4. Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
  5. What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
  6. Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to the…
  7. One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of t…
  8. Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

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