American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782-July 24, 1862) was the 8th President of the United States, 1837-41; Vice-President under Andrew Jackson, 1832-36; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1831-32; Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson, 1829-31; Governor of New York, 1828-29; U.S. Senator, 1821-28; Attorney General of New York, 1815-21; Regent of the University of New York, 1815; New York State Senator, 1812-15; appointed Surrogate of Columbia County, New York, 1808; married Hannah Hoes, 1807, and admitted to bar, 1803. On Saturday, March 4, 1837, in his Inaugural Address, President Martin Van Buren stated: <So sensibly, fellow-citizens, do these circumstances press...

Congress of the Confederation (October 11, 1782) passed a Day of Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer: <Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer. It being the indispensable duty of all nations, not only to offer up their supplications to Almighty God, the giver of all good, for his gracious assistance in the a time of public distress, but also in a solemn and public manner to give him praise for his goodness in general, and especially for great and signal interpositions of his Providence in their behalf; therefore, the United States in Congress assembled, taking into their consideration the many instances of...

Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782-June 17, 1866) was an American soldier, lawyer, politician and diplomat. After serving in the War of 1812, he became the Governor-General of the Territory of Michigan, where he made treaties with the Indians, organized townships and built roads. He was a U.S. Senator, 1845-48, 1849-57; Secretary of State under President James Buchanan, 1857-60; and the Democratic candidate for the Presidency in 1848. Lewis Cass stated: <Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its...

Congress of the Confederation (September 10, 1782) in response to the need for Bibles, Congress endorsed Robert Aitken of Philadelphia to print a Bible. Robert Aitken was the publisher of The Pennsylvania Magazine, as well as the Journals of Congress. In colonial America, it was illegal to print the Bible without a license from the King, and the King had only granted licenses to printers in England. When the Revolutionary War interrupted trade with the King's authorized printer of the King James Authorized Bible, there was a shortage in America of Bibles, which were used in courts of justice, churches, schools,...

John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782-March 31, 1850) was U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from South Carolina. He was the Secretary of War under President James Monroe; Secretary of State under President John Tyler; and Vice-President under both Presidents John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. He was a prominent supporter of "states rights," and in 1850, the year he died, he gave his last speech to the Senate regarding the Civil War that lay ahead: <The cords that bind the States together are not only many, but various in character....The strongest of those of a spiritual and ecclesiastical nature, consisted in...