Quotes from authors passed in 1848
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
John Quincy Adams
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
John Quincy Adams
None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.
Thomas Cole
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Lord Melbourne
Bear Bryant 
Nina Simone 
Paul Haggis 
Clarence Thomas 
Greg LeMond 
Walter Chrysler 
Peter Criss 
Parker Posey