American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Connecticut Colony (1647) passed the School Law of Connecticut, similar to the Old Deluder Satan Law passed in the Colony of Massachusetts, 1642. This law helped to prevent illiteracy, as well as the abuse of power over a population ignorant of Scriptures, as had been the case in Europe. The law stated: <It being one chiefe project of that old deluder, Sathan, to keepe men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former time, and that learning may not be buried in the grave of our forefathers in church and Commonwealth.... It is therefore ordered by this Court...that every township...

Virginia House of Burgesses (November 3, 1647) ordinances of Jamestown: <Upon divers information presented to this Assembly against several ministers for their neglects and refractory refusing after warning given them to read common prayer or Divine service upon the Sabbath days contrary to the cannons of the Church and acts of parliament therein established, for future remedy hereof: Be it enacted by the Governor, Council and Burgesses of this Grand Assembly, That all ministers...upon every Sabbath day read such prayers as are appointed and prescribed unto them by the said book of common prayer, And be it further enacted as a...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (July 1, 1646-November 14, 1716) was a German mathematician and philosopher. Leibniz made contributions in a vast array of subjects, including: politics, law, ethics, theology, history, philosophy, philology and poetry. Leibniz made major contributions to physics and technology, and is credited, along with Sir Isaac Newton, with the inventing of infinitesimal calculus. According to Leibniz's notebooks, a breakthrough occurred on November 11, 1675, when he employed integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of a function y=?(x). Leibniz introduced several notations which continue to be used, such as the integral sign of...

William Penn (October 14, 1644-July 30, 1718) was the founder of Pennsylvania. He was the son of a British Navy Admiral, of the same name, who discovered Bermuda and helped strengthen King Charles II's throne. William Penn attended Oxford University, and later studied law. In 1667, at the age of 22, William Penn was impressed by a sermon delivered by Thomas Loe, titled, "The Sandy Foundation Shaken." He converted to the Christian beliefs of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, who at that time were scorned and ridiculed. In his Treatise on the Religion of the Quakers, William Penn proclaimed: <I...

New Haven Colony Charter (April 3, 1644) adopted the rules for governing the courts of the New Haven Colony, stating: <The judicial laws of God, as they were delivered by Moses...[are to] be a rule to all the courts in this jurisdiction...> 1644NH001 -- 1644NH001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). New Haven Colony Charter, April 3, 1644. John Fiske, The Beginnings of New England (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1898), p. 136. Russ Walton, Biblical Principles of Importance to Godly Christians (NH: Plymouth Rock Foundation, 1984), p. 356. "Our Christian Heritage," Letter from Plymouth Rock (Marlborough, NH: The Plymouth Rock...