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Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Henry Brooks Adams

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. Henry Brooks Adams

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. Henry Brooks Adams

Morality is a private and costly luxury. Henry Brooks Adams

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout! Henry Brooks Adams

They know enough who know how to learn. Henry Brooks Adams

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Brooks Adams

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry Brooks Adams

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. Henry Brooks Adams

The Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders. Henry Adams

A friend in power is a friend lost. Henry Brooks Adams