Quote by Henry Adams
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. - Henr

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

Other quotes by Henry Adams

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

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Politics
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. – Henry Adams

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Education
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In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed. – Luke Ford

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Social economy means spending a penny to save a pound. Political economy is spending a pound to save a penny. – F.Tomline (William Schwenck Gilbert) & Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, The Happy

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Politics

Theres a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. – Harold Pinter

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Politics

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion. – Rick Warren

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. – Francis Bacon

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The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. – Charles Dickens

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Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since Ive been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. Thats the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction. – Chris Christie

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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. – Karl Marx

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