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Charles Francis Adams Sr.
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“In this country … men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.”
Charles Francis Adams Sr. (1807–1886) first seen 1836 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary entry (15 April 1836), as quoted in Peter Yapp (ed.) The Travellers' Dictionary of Quotation: Who Said What, About Where? (1983), p. 862
“It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.”
Charles Francis Adams Sr. (1807–1886) first seen 1863 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dispatch to John Russell at a period of diplomatic tensions between the US and Britain during the US Civil War (5 September 1863); Correspondence concerning Claims against Great Britain, vol. 2 (Washington, D.C., 1870),…
“More than all, and above all, Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example.”
Charles Francis Adams Sr. (1807–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Washington's Birthday : Its History, Observance, Spirit, and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse (1918) by Robert Haven Schauffler, p. 143.