Quotes from authors passed in 1797
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
Mary Wollstonecraft
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
Cloris Leachman 
Alphonse de Lamartine 
Gao Xingjian 
Charles A. Beard 
Humphry Davy 
Jack Paar 
Janine Turner 
J. M. Barrie