Henry Adams

A friend in power is a friend lost.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing read more

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

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

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

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging read more

In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging it even to himself, that in war he was likely to enjoy little profit or pleasure on the day when the long, low, black hull of the Yankee privateer, with her tapering, bending spars, her long-range guns, and her sharp-faced captain, should appear on the western horizon, and suddenly, at the sight of heavy-lumbering British merchantman, should fling out her white wings of canvas, and fly down on her prey.