Quotes from authors passed in 1808
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
Fisher Ames
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
Fisher Ames
Kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.
James Sullivan
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
Fisher Ames
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
Fisher Ames
Nigel Kennedy 
Oscar Arias Sanchez 
Ernest Shackleton 
Daisy Fuentes 
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi 
Dag Hammarskjold 
Tracey Emin 
Morarji Desai