In this country … men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.


Diary entry (15 April 1836), as quoted in The Travellers' Dictionary of Quotation : Who Said What, About Where? (1983) by Peter Yapp, p. 862.

Charles Francis Adams Quotes

In this country … men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

In this country … men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

In this country … men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

In this country … men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.