Henry Brooks Adams, (1838-1918) Pulitzer prize-winning historian (1919), great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, and son of US Secretary of State, Charles Adams Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-4] of 4 Henry Brooks Adams quotesHenry Brooks Adams QuotesHenry Brooks Adams Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.~ Henry Brooks Adams Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.~ Henry Brooks Adams I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.~ Henry Brooks Adams Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.~ Henry Brooks Adams Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print