He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry Adams
More from: Henry Adams
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past. -
I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war. -
The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision. -
After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. -
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
More quotes by Henry Adams
- The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
- I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
- All experience is an arch, to build upon.