Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle, which to him represented all that man was worth, should fail. Mr Hamilton considered democracy a fatal curse, and meant to stop its progress.
Henry AdamsThe work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.
Henry AdamsThe less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
Henry AdamsA parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams