I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.			
				
			What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.			 
			
| John Adams, President (1735) | 
| Joe Adcock, Athlete (1927) | 
| Robert Caro, Writer (1935) | 
| Timothy Findley, Novelist (1930) | 
| William Halsey, Soldier (1882) | 
| Harry Hamlin, Actor (1951) | 
| James Laughlin, Poet (1914) | 
| John Abbott, Statesman (1893) | 
| Steve Allen, Entertainer (2000) | 
| Lillian Gordy Carter, Celebrity (1983) | 
| Clifford Geertz, Scientist (2006) | 
| Jam Master Jay, Musician (2002) | 
| Rose Wilder Lane, Journalist (1968) | 

