American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Massachusetts Provincial Congress (1774) resolved: <Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual....Continue steadfast, and with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.> 1774MP001 In 1774, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress reorganized the Massachusetts militia, providing that over one-third of all new regiments be made up of "Minutemen." The minutemen, known as such because they would be ready to fight at a minute's notice, would drill as citizen soldiers on the parade ground, then go to the church to hear exhortation and...

Boston Tea Party (December 16, 1773) followed just three years after the Boston Massacre, where five Americans were killed by British soldiers who were commandeering homes. The British then began imposing on the Colonies taxation, which eventually became unbearable. Early in the year of 1773, the men of Marlborough, Massachusetts, declared unanimously: <Death is more eligible than slavery. A free-born people are not required by the religion of Jesus Christ to submit to tyranny, but may make use of such power as God has given them to recover and support their laws and liberties... [We] implore the Ruler above the...

First Jewish Sermon Published in America (May 28, 1773): <Preached at the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, by an emissary from the Holy Land, Haim Isaac Karigal, to celebrate Shavu'ot, one of the three Jewish pilgrimage festivals. The sermon was preached in Spanish interspersed with Hebrew, and translated into English by Abraham Lopez.> 1773FJ001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1773FJ001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). First Jewish Sermon Published in America, May 28, 1773, Preached in Spanish at the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, by...

William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773-April 4, 1841) was the 9th President of the United States, 1841, serving only one month before dying; U.S. Minister to Columbia, 1828-29; U.S. Senator, 1825-28; Ohio State Senator, 1819; U.S. Representative, 1816-19; Major General, appointed supreme commander in the Northwest, winning the Battle of Tippecanoe, 1811, and the Battle of the Thames, 1813; and Governor of Indiana Territory, 1800; U.S. Representative from the Northwest Territory, 1799; Secretary of the Northwest Territory, 1798; married Anna Symmes, 1795; enlisted in the U.S. Infantry, 1791; graduated from Hampden-Sidney College, 1790; and the son of Benjamin Harrison, a...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772-July 25, 1834) was an English poet, philosopher and critic. His works, which began the "Romantic Period" of English Literature, include: Kubla Khan, 1797; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1797-98; and Christabel, 1797-1800. Samuel Taylor Coleridge stated: <I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.> 1772SC001 <Is it fitting to run Jesus Christ in a silly parallel with Socrates-the Being whom thousands of millions of intellectual creatures, of whom I am a humble unit, take to be their Redeemer - with an...