Henry Brooks Adams Quote

Famous Quote from 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."

By:	Henry Brooks Adams (more quotes by Henry Brooks Adams or books by/about 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
Source:	The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma, 1919
Categories:	Government, Honor, Integrity, Power, Speech, Truth, Freedom
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