Henry Adams Quotes
Nothing [is] more uncertain than the moral sensitivities of a political body.
Henry Adams, 1838-1918, Historian, History of the United States of America during the Administrations of James Madison
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This was his perception of the change in Parliament in the 64 years he was in that body. Bribery, for example, was then commonplace for American and British legislators. By the 21st century the money spent by the rich and corporations to by legislative outcomes was many times as great but had been covered over by the fig leaf of campaign and party contributions.
Viscount Morley of Blackburn. Morley's paraphrase was of a quotation of Rousseau 19 years earlier.
Bryan participated as a prosecutor in the infamous Scopes Trial in Tennessee where a school teacher was convicted of a crime for discussing the idea of evolution in a high school classroom. He had written this for his summary to the jury, but the summaries were dispensed with when it was obvious that Scopes would be convicted. He had admitted to breaking the law, but the law itself was on trial.
Henry Brooks Adams was an American historian and a member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. Presidents.
