Quote of the day
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
Carl Schurz
Born: March 2, 1829
Died: May 14, 1906 (aged 77)
Bio: Carl Christian Schurz was a German revolutionary, American statesman and reformer, U.S. Minister to Spain, Union Army General in the American Civil War, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of the Interior.
Known for:
- Report on the Condition of the South (1865)
- The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz
- Life of Henry Clay (1844)
- The policy of imperialism (1899)
- Condition of the South (1866)