Quotes from authors passed in 1868
My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.
Samuel Lover
I like the noise of democracy.
James Buchanan
Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.
Thaddeus Stevens
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
Gioachino Rossini
What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
James Buchanan
Rich Little 
Gabrielle Union 
William Jennings Bryan 
Tony Goldwyn 
Eva Braun 
Thomas Cromwell 
John C. Reilly 
Louis Farrakhan