Quotes from authors passed in 1753
We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.
George Berkeley
From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
George Berkeley
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
George Berkeley
I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
George Berkeley
That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.
George Berkeley
Robert Treat Paine 
Hjalmar Schacht 
John Tukey 
Francis Ford Coppola 
Kevin McDonald 
Sam Kinison 
Fisher Ames 
Jim Gilmore Authors that died in 1753