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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about politics, games

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

Quote by Henry B. Adams about politics

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about power

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about power

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about politics

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about simplicity, man

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about force, genius

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about americans

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about influence

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.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about advertising, victims, end, self-control, power, man

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about press, purpose, nothing

The progress of Evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about evolution, progress

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about woman

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about bad, woman, man

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about intelligence, things

They know enough who know how to learn.

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Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about problems

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about obstacles, order

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about youth, moment

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

Quote by Henry B. Adams about tact, use, contentment