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

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. – Henry Adams

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

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Politics
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. – Henry Adams

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alone
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When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics. – William Hague

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Politics

In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether its single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics. – Eliot Spitzer

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Politics

When I started CNN, I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasnt going to come from me. – Ted Turner

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Politics

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. – Henry A. Kissinger

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Politics

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I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas bring me big ideas to match our future. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Future

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses. – Joan Baez

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Forgiveness

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldnt trade. Women who lie about their age – why? – Demi Moore

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Age

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion – Norman Angell

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Facts