Quote#World
In this country … men seem to live for action as long as they can and…
Quote byCharles Francis Adams Sr. · 1807–1886
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Diary entry (15 April 1836), as quoted in Peter Yapp (ed.) The Travellers' Dictionary of Quotation: Who Said What, About Where? (1983), p. 862.
English (original)
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.
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