Quotes by Brooks Adams

"I need a sitting room where I can entertain my friends, but I must have a library where my books entertain me."
— Brooks Adams
"History may not be a very practical study, but it teaches some useful lessons, one of which is that nothing is accidental, and that if men move in a given direction, they do so in obedience to an impulsion as automatic as is the impulsion of gravitation."
— Brooks Adams
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Peter Chardon Brooks Adams (June 24, 1848 – February 13, 1927) was an American attorney, historian, political scientist and a critic of capitalism.