Frases de Charles Francis Adams

Charles Francis Adams fue un abogado, político, diplomático y escritor estadounidense.

Hijo del presidente John Quincy Adams y nieto del presidente John Adams. Estudió leyes bajo la dirección del insigne jurista Daniel Webster. Trabajó en la legislatura de Massachusetts y editó una publicación del partido Whig. Ayudó a formar el antiesclavista Free Soil Party y en 1848 fue elegido como candidato de este partido a la vicepresidencia estadounidense.

Como embajador en Gran Bretaña contribuyó positivamente en asegurar la neutralidad británica durante la Guerra Civil Estadounidense y en promover la mediación de las reclamaciones de Alabama. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. agosto 1807 – 21. noviembre 1886   •   Otros nombres Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
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Charles Francis Adams: Frases en inglés

“More than all, and above all, Washington was master of himself.”

As quoted in Washington's Birthday : Its History, Observance, Spirit, and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse (1918) by Robert Haven Schauffler http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/5/1/4/15140/15140.htm, p. 143.
Contexto: 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.

“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.

“It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.”

Dispatch to John Russell at a period of diplomatic tensions between the US and Britain during the US Civil War (5 September 1863); more information on the significance of this statement is available at "The American Question Abroad in the Civil War" http://www.civilwarhome.com/americanquestion4.htm