Quotes from authors born in 1807
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
This war is not about slavery.
Robert E. Lee
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.
Louis Agassiz
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Authors born in 1807

William Osler
Lynn Westmoreland
Mark Rydell
Amy Poehler
Val Kilmer
Mary Todd Lincoln
Van Jones
Veronica Lake