Henry Adams Quotes about Politics

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

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

Henry Adams

Organization, Hatred, Politics

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Henry Adams

Cheer, Purpose, Politics

Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.445, BookRix

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Henry Adams

Games, Political, Politics

Henry Adams, Jacob Clavner Levenson, Massachusetts Historical Society (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams: 1868-1885”

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 Adams

Political, Use, Politics

Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1494, Open Road Media

The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.

Henry Adams

Wings, Use, Politics