“States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.”
“To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.”
| Casey Affleck, Actor (1975) |
| Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Theologian (1905) |
| Katharine Lee Bates, Author (1859) |
| John Cazale, Actor (1935) |
| Cecil B. DeMille, Producer (1881) |
| Dorothy Denning, Public Servant (1945) |
| John Derek, Actor (1926) |
| Radclyffe Hall, Poet (1880) |
| Edith Hamilton, Writer (1867) |
| Sam J. Jones, Actor (1954) |
| Luther Allison, Musician (1997) |
| Jean-Michel Basquiat, Artist (1988) |
| John Cage, Composer (1992) |
| Ian Fleming, Author (1964) |
| Henry Fonda, Actor (1982) |
| Esther Forbes, Author (1967) |
| Albert Gallatin, Statesman (1849) |
| Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer (1885) |