American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Sir James Hopwood Jeans (September 11, 1877-September 16, 1946) was an English physicist and astronomer. He studied the nature of gases and sun radiations. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge University, he became a professor at Princeton University in the area of applied mathematics, and later a professor at Cambridge. He was a research associate at the Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, California, 1923-44; Secretary of the Royal Society; president of the Royal Astronomical Society of England; and was knighted in 1928. His works include: The Universe Around Us, 1929; The Mysterious Universe, 1930; and Physics and Philosophy, 1942. In his work, The Mysterious...

William W. Bennett (1877) a Confederate Chaplain during the Civil War, published his remarkable documentary, A Narrative of the Great Revival Which Prevailed in the Southern Armies. This was a first-hand account of the spiritual renewal that occurred in General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. As head of the Methodist Soldiers' Tract Association, Chaplain William W. Bennett wrote of the conversions in the Confederate ranks: <Up to January, 1865, it was estimated that nearly 150,000 soldiers had been converted during the progress of the war, and it was believed that fully one-third of all the soldiers in the field were...

Colorado State Motto (August 1, 1876) stated: <Nil Sine Numine (Nothing without God).> 1876CS005 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1876CS005. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Colorado State Motto, August 1, 1876. The World Book Encyclopedia, 18 vols. (Chicago, IL: Field Enterprises, Inc., 1957; W.F. Quarrie and Company, 8 vols., 1917; World Book, Inc., 22 vols., 1989), Vol. 3, p. 1602. John Wilson Taylor, M.A., Ph.D., et al., The Lincoln Library of Essential Information (Buffalo, New York: The Frontier Press Company, 1935), p. 2067. Charles Wallis, ed., Our...

Colorado (August 1, 1876) was the 38th State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of Colorado, adopted March 14, 1876, stated: <Preamble. We, the people of Colorado, with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, in order to form a more independent and perfect government; establish justice; insure tranquility; provide for the common defense; promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the "State of Colorado."> 1876CS001 <Article II, Section 4. Religious Freedom. The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and...

Pope Pius XII (March 2, 1876-October 9, 1958) whose given name was Eugenio Pacelli, in a radio broadcast on September 1, 1944, stated: <Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious.> 1876PP001 On August 28, 1947, in an exchange of messages with Pope Pius XII, President Harry S. Truman stated: <Our...