American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Joseph Warren (June 11, 1741-June 17, 1775) was an American revolutionary patriot and physician. He sent Paul Revere on his midnight ride to Lexington, warning of the British advance. He graduated from Harvard in 1759, and became a physician in Boston in 1764. His brother, John Warren, founded Harvard Medical School. Dr. Joseph Warren was elected President pro-tempore of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, April of 1775, and was commissioned as a major general in the Continental Army. Joseph Warren was killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, and the Bunker Hill Memorial was erected where he fell. On...

Samuel Chase (April 17, 1741-June 19, 1811) was an attorney, jurist and politician. The son of an Anglican clergyman, he was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, served as the Chief Justice of the State of Maryland, 1791, and was appointed by George Washington as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1796-1811. In the case of Runkel v. Winemiller, 1799, Justice Chase gave the court's opinion: <Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. By our form of government,...

Nathaniel Freeman (March 28, 1741-September 20, 1827) was a jurist, soldier and politician. He served as Brigadier General of the Militia, 1781-93, a member of the Massachusetts state legislature, and served Massachusetts as a representative to Congress, 1795-99. He served as a judge of Probate for 47 years and as a judge of Common Pleas for 30 years. In 1802, Judge Nathaniel Freeman gave a charge to the Massachusetts Grand Jury: <The laws of the Christian system, as embraced by the Bible, must be respected as of high authority in all our courts and it cannot be thought improper for...

Elias Boudinot (May 2, 1740-October 24, 1821) was the President of the Continental Congress, 1782-83. He became a U.S. Representative from New Jersey, 1789-95, and helped frame the Bill of Rights. He was the Director of the U.S. Mint under Presidents George Washington and John Adams, 1795-97. He became a Christian during the Great Awakening, and was baptized by the Rev. George Whitfield. He helped found and served as the first President of the American Bible Society, 1816-21. On July 4, 1783, in an address given in New Jersey, Dr. Elias Boudinot stated: <No sooner had the great Creator of the...

Augustus Montague Toplady (November 4, 1740-August 11, 1778) composed the hymn, Rock of Ages, which originally appeared in the Gospel Magazine, October of 1775: <Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee.> 1740AT001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1740AT001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Augustus Montague Toplady,October 1775, published the hymn, Rock of Ages, in the Gospel Magazine. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 386.