Famous quotes by Historians

"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"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

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

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

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

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"Morality is a private and costly luxury"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"All experience is an arch to build upon"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"Intimates are predestined"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

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

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"Politics are a very unsatisfactory game"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"He too serves a certain purpose, who only stands and cheers"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"They know enough who know how to learn"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"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"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"It is always good men who do the most harm in the world"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable"

Tacitus, Historian

Tacitus

"Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it"

Tacitus, Historian

Tacitus

"Custom adapts itself to expediency"

Tacitus, Historian

Tacitus

"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

Thomas B. Macaulay

"To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it"

Tacitus, Historian

Tacitus

"The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

Thomas B. Macaulay

"That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

Thomas B. Macaulay

"Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

Thomas B. Macaulay

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