Famous Quotes | America had no use for Adams...

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
Attribution: Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918), U.S. historian. The Education of Henry B. Adams, p. 963, Library of America (1983). Describing Ulysses S. Grant.

Categories: Grant, Ulysses S., Historian, Politics

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