American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810-May 10, 1860) was an American abolitionist, clergyman, and graduate of Harvard. Strongly opposing slavery, he declared: <The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.> 1810TP001 On May 29, 1850, Theodore Parker wrote The American Idea, in which he...

Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810-April 7, 1891) was an American exhibitor and philanthropist. He originated 'The Greatest Show of Earth.' Selling millions of tickets, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus' big draws included General Tom Thumb, a man only 25 inches tall, and elephant "Jumbo," whose name entered the dictionary. Barnum, who was received by President Lincoln and gave a command performance for Queen Victoria, stated: <Most persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing too little, than by believing too much.> 1810PB003 <Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.>1810PB004 <The best kind...

Horatio Seymour (May 31, 1810-February 12, 1886) was Governor of New York, 1853-55, and the War Governor of New York during the Civil War, 1863-65. Horatio Seymour, who was instrumental in gaining government sanction for the building of Erie Canal, was also the Democratic Presidential candidate in 1868. On July 4, 1876, Horatio Seymour gave an oration titled, The Future of the Human Race, delivered at Rome, New York. In it, he declared: <He who studies with care the jurisprudence of the Old Testament will see that this feeling of reverence for forefathers and devotion to country is made the...

Edmund Hamilton Sears (April 6, 1810-January 16, 1876) was an American clergyman. He ministered in Wayland, Massachusetts, 1848- 66; and in Weston, Massachusetts, 1866-76. In 1850, Edmund Hamilton Sears wrote The Angel's Song: <It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From Angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold: "Peace on earth, good will to men From heav'n's all gracious King." The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing.> 1810ES001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1810ES001. William...

Pope Leo XIII (March 2, 1810-July 20, 1903) whose given name was Gioacchino Pecci, stated in his encyclical on the condition of labor, Rerum Novarum, May 15, 1891: <Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.> 1810PL001 On June 7, 1827, in a Proclamation regarding Pope Leo XII (1760- 1829), President John Quincy Adams stated: <Whereas satisfactory evidence was given to the President of the United States on the 30th day of May last by Count Lucchesi, consul-general of His Holiness the Pope, that all foreign and discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the...