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Quotes from authors passed in 1859
 
 
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
Horace Mann
There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
Leigh Hunt
That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
Gamaliel Bailey
Authors that died in 1859
 
 
Thomas Babington 10 quotes
 
Gamaliel Bailey 4 quotes
 
Isambard K. Brunel 2 quotes
 
Rufus Choate 2 quotes
 
Henry Hallam 1 quote
 
Leigh Hunt 14 quotes
 
Washington Irving 45 quotes
 
Thomas B. Macaulay 38 quotes
 
Thomas Macaulay 1 quote
 
Horace Mann 28 quotes