Quotes from authors born in 1824
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
George William Curtis
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.
Leland Stanford
I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.
Lucy Larcom
It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
Wilkie Collins
It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
George MacDonald
David Satcher 
Josephine Baker 
Mary Harris Jones 
Dennis Wilson 
E. O. Wilson 
Kate Millett 
Vanessa Hudgens 
Julie Brown