Quote #27
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 them.
More from Henry Adams
- Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
- Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable.
- Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
- Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
- Morality is a private and costly luxury.
- No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.