Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them. As far as Adams could teach experience, he was bound to warn them that he had found it an invariable disaster. Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had been always tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.


The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

Henry Adams Quotes

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them. As far...

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them. As far...

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them. As far...

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them. As far...