Quotes from authors born in 1789
Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
Countess of Blessington
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
James F. Cooper
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
James F. Cooper
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.
James F. Cooper
Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
James F. Cooper
Mary Cassatt 
Will Rogers 
Judd Apatow 
Alec Baldwin 
George C. Marshall 
Alex Winter 
Raul Grijalva 
Josh Billings