Quote of the day
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
Francis Lieber
Born: March 18, 1798
Died: October 2, 1872 (aged 74)
Bio: Francis Lieber, known as Franz Lieber in Germany, was a German-American jurist, gymnast and political philosopher. He edited an Encyclopaedia Americana.
Known for:
- Encyclopedia Americana (1829)
- Legal and Political Hermeneutics (1839)
- Civil liberty and self-government