"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."
- Henry Adams
"Politics as a practice whatever its professions has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
"What you think means more than anything else in your life."
- George Matthew Adams
"What after all has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind if not the faith in new possibilities and the courage to ad..."
- Jane Adams
"Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!"
- John Quincy Adams
"Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue."
- Adam Clarke
"I used to pray that God would do this or that now I pray that God will make His will known to me."
- Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
"To pray together in whatever tongue or ritual is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life."
- Madame de Stael
"No Doctor I don't want to grow young again. I just want to keep on growing old."
- Madame de Rothschild
"The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs and never care how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall."
- Thomas Adams