Famous quotes containing the words brooks adams, henry, brooks and/or adams:
“A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American Senator, if he is truly democratic; for democracy, rightly understood, is the government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of Senators, and there is always a danger that the British Minister may not understand this political principle as he should.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“To be in love
Is to touch things with a lighter hand.
In yourself you stretch, you are well.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“America had no use for Adams because he was eighteenth-century, and yet it worshipped Grant because he was archaic and should have lived in a cave and worn skins.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)