Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Albert J. Beveridge
Born: October 6, 1862
Died: April 27, 1927 (aged 64)
Bio: Albert Jeremiah Beveridge was an American historian and United States Senator from Indiana. He was an intellectual leader of the Progressive Era, and a biographer of justice John Marshall and President Abraham Lincoln.
Known for:
- The Life of John Marshall (1916)
- Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1858
- The Young Man And the World (1905)
- The Russian Advance (1903)
- What is back of the war (1915)