American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Connecticut Constitution (1818): <PREAMBLE. The people of Connecticut acknowledging with gratitude, the good Providence of God, in having permitted them to enjoy a free government, do, in order more effectually to define, secure, and perpetuate the liberties, rights and privileges which they have derived from their ancestors, hereby, after a careful consideration and revision, ordain and establish the following constitution and form of civil government... ARTICLE 1, DECLARATION OF RIGHTS, SECTION 3. The exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination, shall forever be free to all persons in this state; provided, that the right hereby declared and established...

Illinois (December 3, 1818) was the 21st State admitted to the Union. On August 7, 1789, President George Washington signed into law an Act of Congress which prohibited slavery from entering the territory, titled: <An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, Article VI.> 1818IL001 On December 3, 1818, President James Monroe, signed the Act of Congress enabling the establishment of the government of Illinois, provided it followed the general tenets of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. The Northwest Ordinance stated: <SECTION 13. And, for extending the fundamental principles of civil and...

Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818-March 14, 1883) was a German philosopher, economist and revolutionary. He was known for founding the theory of Communism. He wrote: The Communist Manifesto, 1848; The Class Struggles in France, 1850; The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, 1852; A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, 1859; and Das Kapital, 1867. Karl Marx attended the University of Berlin, where he became involved with the radical anti-religious group, the Young Hegelians. After being refused a university post because of his radical views, Karl Marx began publishing a paper in 1842, which was banned in Germany. He fled...

James Anthony Froude (April 23, 1818-October 20, 1894) was an English historian. He was a professor at Oxford and published the History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, in twelve volumes. James Anthony Froude professed: <The Bible, thoroughly known, is literature in itself-the rarest and richest in all departments of thoughts and imagination which exists.> 1818JF001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1818JF001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). James Anthony Froude. Tryon Edwards, D.D., The New Dictionary of Thoughts-A Cyclopedia...

John Mason Neale (January 24, 1818-August 6, 1866) was an English poet and language scholar, knowing over 20 languages. In 1842, he was ordained a clergyman and translated many hymns from their original Greek and Latin tongues. Many Christmas hymns were written or translated by him, including: Jerusalem the Golden; The Day is Past and Over; Come, Ye Faithful; and the favorite Good King Wenceslas: <Good King Wenceslas looked out On the feast of Stephen, When the snow lay round about, Deep and crisp and even.> 1818JN001 In 1861, John Mason Neale translated the twelfth century Latin hymn, Veni, Veni, Emmanuel...