American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

New Hampshire Constitution (June 2, 1784): <PART I, ARTICLE 1: All men are born equally free and independent; therefore all government of rights originates from the people... PART 1, ARTICLE 4. Among the natural rights, some are in their very nature unalienable, because no equivalent can be given or received for them. Of this kind are the Rights of Conscience. PART 1, ARTICLE 5. Every individual has a natural and unalienable right to worship GOD according to the dictates of his own conscience, and reason; and no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained in his person, liberty or estate...

Congress of the Confederation (January 14, 1784) ratified the peace treaty with Great Britain, which had been signed in Paris on September 3, 1783, thereby officially ending the Revolutionary War. The treaty began: <In the name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the most serene and most potent Prince George the Third, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith,...and of the United States of America, to forget all past misunderstandings and differences....Done at Paris, this third day of September, in...

Simon Greenleaf (December 5, 1783-October 6, 1853) was the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard. He succeeded Justice Joseph Story as the Dane Professor of Law. To the efforts of Story and Greenleaf is to be ascribed the rise of the Harvard Law School to its eminent position among the legal schools of the United States. Greenleaf produced a work titled: A Treatise On the Law of Evidence, still considered to be the greatest single authority on "evidence" in all the literature on legal procedure. Chief Justice Fuller of the U.S. Supreme Court described Greenleaf by saying, "He is the...

Massachusetts Proclamation (November 8, 1783) the Legislature issued a Proclamation for a Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer, signed by Governor John Hancock, to celebrate the victorious conclusion of the Revolutionary War: <John Hancock, Esquire Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts A Proclamation for a Day of Thanksgiving: Whereas...these United States are not only happily rescued from the Danger and Calamities to which they have been so long exposed, but their Freedom, Sovereignty and Independence ultimately acknowledged. And whereas...the Interposition of Divine Providence in our Favor hath been most abundantly and most graciously manifested, and the Citizens of these United States...

Reginald Heber (April 21, 1783-April 3, 1826) was an English missionary and hymn writer. He was the first Anglican bishop sent to India, where he baptized the first Christian convert in East India. In 1827, Reginald Heber wrote the immortal words to the hymn, Holy, Holy, Holy: <Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee:  Holy, Holy, Holy! Merciful and Mighty! God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity.> 1783HR001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1783HR001. William J. Federer, American Quotations...