American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Maryland Constitution (1795) Amendment proposed by Act of 1794: <CHAPTER 49. Every person being a member of either of the Religious sects or societies called Quakers, Menonists, Dunkers or Nicolites or New Quakers and who shall be conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath on any occasion being otherwise qualified and duly Elected a Senator, Delegate, or Elector of the Senate, or being otherwise qualified and duly appointed or elected to any office of Profit or Trust, on making affirmation instead of taking the several Oaths appointed by the Constitution and Form of Government, and the several Acts of Assembly of...

Benjamin Franklin Butler (December 14, 1795-November 8, 1858) was an American politician and Union General during the Civil War. He served as the U.S. Attorney General, 1833-38, under President Andrew Jackson; the U.S. Secretary of War, 1836-37; and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1838-48. In addition to serving in the New York State Legislature, Benjamin Franklin Butler was the head of the electoral College of New York in 1845. In an address delivered in 1834 at Alexandria, D.C., Benjamin Franklin Butler stated: <He is truly happy, whatever may be his temporal condition, who can call God his...

Thomas Carlyle (December 4, 1795-February 5, 1881) was a Scottish essayist and historian. His works were controversial yet highly praised.  His books include: The Life of Schiller, 1826; The French Revolution, 1837; and On Heros and Hero Worship, 1840. He also translated Goethe's works from German into English. Thomas Carlyle wrote: <The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far- distant, long-forgotten home.> 1795TC001 <I call the Book of...

James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795-June 15, 1849) was the 11th President of the United States, 1845-49, won the Mexican War against Santa Anna, 1848, which resulted in California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming being added to the Union; resolved dispute with Great Britain, 1846, fixing the Oregon border at the 49th parallel; Governor of Tennessee, 1839-41; U.S. Representative, 1824- 39, being Speaker of the House, 1835-39; married Sarah Childress, 1824; member of the Tennessee Legislature, 1823-25; admitted to the bar, 1820; and graduated from the University of North Carolina, 1818. On Tuesday,...

United States Congress Proclamation (January 1, 1795) after averting the crisis of the Whiskey Rebellion, a National Thanksgiving Proclamation was issued by President George Washington declaring Thursday, the 19th of February, 1795, as a National Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer: <The happy course of our public affairs in general, the unexampled prosperity of all classes of our citizens, are circumstances which peculiarly mark our situation with indications of the Divine Beneficence towards us. In such a state of things, it is in an especial manner our duty as a people, with devout reverence and affectionate gratitude, to acknowledge our many...