Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Thaddeus Stevens
Born: April 4, 1792
Died: August 11, 1868 (aged 76)
Bio: Thaddeus Stevens was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s.