WIST

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams (1838-1918) American journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Education of Henry Adams, ch. 1 (1907)

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Henry Adams (1838-1918) American journalist, historian, academic, novelist
The Letters of Henry Adams [ed. W. C. Ford (1930-38)]

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

Henry Adams (1838-1918) American journalist, historian, academic, novelist
Letter to Henry Cabot Lodge (15 Nov 1881)