Quotes from authors passed in 1780
The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.
William Blackstone
I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode.
John Andre
Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
William Blackstone
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
William Blackstone
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
William Blackstone
Joyce DeWitt 
Louise Brooks 
Daniel Day-Lewis 
Hugh Miller 
Peggy Lee 
Adam Sedgwick 
Ron Wood 
Jonathan Katz