Ocupation: Former United States Representative
Life: April 4, 1792 - August 11, 1868
Birthday: April 4
Death: August 11
There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion; in the bloody religions of the heathen.
source: "The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: April 1865-August 1868" by Thaddeus Stevens, University of Pittsburgh Pre, 1997.