American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Jonathan Dayton (October 16, 1760-October 9, 1824) was the youngest signer of the Constitution of the United States. He was a delegate from New Jersey, a U.S. Senator and the Speaker of the House. The city of Dayton, Ohio, was named after him. On June 28, 1787, at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Jonathan Dayton wrote down the effects on Congress of Dr. Benjamin Franklin's monumental speech calling for Congress to be opened with prayer every day: <The Doctor sat down; and never did I behold a countenance at once so dignified and delighted as was that of Washington at...

Holy Bible (during the period 1760-1805) was the source for 34 percent of all quotations cited by our Founding Fathers. After reviewing an estimated 15,000 items, including newspaper articles, pamphlets, books, monographs, tracts and sermons, Professor Donald S. Lutz of the University of Houston, with Charles S. Hyneman, in their work "The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late Eighteenth-Century American Political Thought" published in the American Political Science Review (189, 1984: 189-197), revealed that the Bible, especially the book of Deuteronomy, contributed 34 percent of all quotations used by our Founding Fathers. Other sources included: <Baron Charles Montesquieu 8.3...

William Kirby (September 19, 1759-July 4, 1850) was a noted English entomologist. He wrote many significant scientific works, including one by the title of: <On the Power and Wisdom of God and His Goodness as Manifested in the Creation of Animals.> 1759WK001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1759WK001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). William Kirby, Title of a scientific treatises he had written, On the Power and Wisdom of God and His Goodness as Manifested in the Creation of Animals. Henry M. Morris, Men of Science-men...

Zephaniah Swift (February 27, 1759-September 27, 1823) was an jurist, politician and author. He was U.S. Representative, 1793-97; Connecticut State Representative, 1787-93, 1820-22; member of the Abolition Society, 1795; Chief-Justice of the Connecticut Superior Court, 1806-19; Connecticut Superior Court Judge, 1801-06; and helped frame the Connecticut State Constitution, 1814. In 1793, in his work The Correspondent, Zephaniah Swift stated: <Christians of different denominations ought to consider that the law knows no distinction among them; that they are all established upon the broad basis of equal liberty, that they have a right to think, speak, and worship as they please, and...

John Armstrong (November 25, 1758-April 1, 1843) was an American politician and diplomat. He served as a U.S. Representative; U.S. Senator; Secretary of War, 1813; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1806-10; U.S Minister to France, 1804-06; and a U.S. Military General. He published the works: Notices of the War of 1812; and Memoirs of Montgomery and Wayne, in Sparks' American Biographies. John Armstrong stated: <Nor is this spiritual and moral disease to be healed by a better education, a few external, transient thoughts. It requires the hand of the great Physician, the Lord Jesus Christ, by His Holy Spirit, and belief...