The Education of Henry Adams Quotes

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Rich people can be generous, even the ones with bloodcurdling political views can be generous, but most believe in generosity on their own terms,...
You, who are in power, have only the means that money produces; we, who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
You forget that political liberty, the tranquillity of a nation, nay, knowledge itself, are gifts on which destiny has laid a tax of blood!