Quotes from authors born in 1808
If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
Jefferson Davis
I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
Andrew Johnson
Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.
Charles Tennyson Turner
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gerard De Nerval
Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.
Jefferson Davis
Jacques Verges 
Phylicia Rashad 
Henry Billings Brown 
Irv Kupcinet 
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
Ken Russell 
Joseph E. Brown 
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio