Adams

Famous quotes containing the word adams:

    Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    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)

    The happiness of society is the end of government.
    —John Adams (1735–1826)