evidence: Re "The greatest thing Andrew Jackson never said," Opinion, Jan. 26 Professor Daniel Feller’s article does an excellent job of tracing the quotation "One man with courage makes a majority" back to James Parton’s 1860 biography of Andrew Jackson, which prominently used the epigraph "Desperate Courage Makes One a Majority." In the course of compiling the recently published Yale Book of Quotations (Yale University Press), I developed innovative techniques of researching quotation origins. Using these techniques, I find an earlier usage of "Desperate courage makes one a majority." This sentence appeared in an anonymous article, titled "Physical Courage," in the Atlantic Monthly in November 1858.