American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Hans Christian Andersen (April 2, 1805-August 4, 1875) was a Danish novelist and story-writer. He authored many fairy tales, including The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Tinder Box. In his autobiography, titled The Fairy Tale of My Life, 1855, Hans Christian Andersen wrote: <Depressed in spirit, I took up my Bible, which lay before me, for an oracle; opened it, pointed blindly at a place, and read: "O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in Me is thine help." (Hosea.) Yes, Father, I am weak, but Thou lookest into my heart and wilt be my help. Here...

Benjamin Disraeli (December 21, 1804-April 19, 1881) the 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, was Prime Minister of Britain, 1868, 1874-80. An accomplished author and diplomat, Benjamin Disraeli wrote: <The time will come when countless myriads will find music in the songs of Zion and solace in the parables of Galilee....The pupil of Moses may ask himself whether all the princes of the House of David have done so much for the Jews as the Prince who was crucified?> 1804BD001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1804BD001. William J. Federer, American...

Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804-October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United States, 1853-57; president of New Hampshire Constitutional Convention, 1850; Brigadier General in Mexican War, 1846-48; U.S. Senator, 1837-42; U.S. Representative, 1833-37; married Jane Means Appleton, 1834; member of the New Hampshire Legislature, 1829- 33, being State Speaker of the House, 1831-33; admitted to bar, 1827; and graduated from Bowdoin College, 1824, being friends with Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In 1839, while serving in the U.S. Senate, Franklin Pierce wrote to his law partner: <I have dwelt somewhat more this winter upon the truths of...

Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804-May 19, 1864) was an American author and poet. He became famous through his novel, The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850. He was a friend of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States. Other well-known works of his include: The House of Seven Gables, Twice-Told Tales, Blithedale Romance and Mosses from an Old Manse. In his poem, The Star of Calvary, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote: <It is the same infrequent star, The all mysterious light, That, like a watcher gazing on The changes of the night, Toward the hill of Bethlehem,...

United States Congress (December 3, 1803) ratified A Treaty Between the United States and the Kaskaskia Tribe of Indians. This treaty, which had been recommended by President Thomas Jefferson, included the annual support of a Catholic missionary priest of $100, to be paid out of the Federal treasury. At a later date two other treaties with similar provisions were made: the Treaty with the Wyandots etc., in 1805 and the Treaty with the Cherokees in 1806. The treaty provided: <And whereas the greater part of the said tribe have been baptized and received into the Catholic Church, to which they...