Charles Francis Adams quotes Country: usa

• No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. (Charles Francis Adams) [amount/excellence/greatness]
• In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire. (Charles Francis Adams) [men/action]
• Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down. (Charles Francis Adams)
• In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished. (Charles Francis Adams)
• No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him. (Charles Francis Adams)
• No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction. (Charles Francis Adams)
• We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones. (Charles Francis Adams)

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