4 Henry Adams Quotes on Leadership

Henry Adams quotes on leadership

7. Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.

10. The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

12. Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

24. Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.