American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Samuel Pepys (February 23, 1633-May 26, 1703) was an English diarist, who had served as a clerk in the British Navy. He was promoted to Secretary of the Admiralty, instituting many of the administrative methods of the British Navy, and was elected president of the Royal Society. His Diary, kept from the years of 1660-69, has become a vivid and popular picture of life in England during the period of the Restoration, the Plague, and the Fire of London. Written in cipher, it was not decoded and published until 1825. In 1928, it was made into the play, And So To...

John Locke (August 29, 1632-October 28, 1704) was an English philosopher, diplomat and educator, whose writings had a profound influence on America's Founding Fathers. He received his master's degree from the Christ Church College of Oxford University, 1658, and lectured there on Greek, philosophy and rhetoric. He served as a diplomat to Madrid, 1665, moved to France, 1675, then Holland, 1683, and returned to England, 1688. Locke's works include: A Letter Concerning Toleration, 1689; Two Treatises of Government, 1690; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1693; Some Thoughts Concerning Education, 1693; and The Reasonableness of Christianity, 1695. Of nearly 15,000 items of...

Maryland History (1632) from The Original 13-A Documentary History of Religion in America's First Thirteen States (Amerisearch, Inc., 2009): <Maryland was founded as a colony for persecuted Catholics in 1632 by Cecil Calvert and his brother Leonard Calvert. It was named for King Charles I's wife, Henrietta Maria, who was a French Catholic. Religious tensions of that era were such that the Puritans of Boston would not allow Calvert into their port after his transatlantic voyage. The Declaration of Lord Baltimore's Plantation, stated: "It pleased his most Excellent Majesty in June last, 1632, to give under the Great Seale of England,...

Charter of Maryland (June 20, 1632) was originally issued by King Charles I, to George Calvert (1580-1632), First Lord Baltimore. He had served as Secretary of State for King James I, but he died before he could embark. The Charter was then reissued to his son, Cecilius Calvert (1605-1675), Second Lord Baltimore, who commissioned his brother, Leonard Calvert (1606-1647), to found the colony and serve as its administrator. The Charter of the Colony of Maryland, June 20, 1632, named in honor of Charles I's wife, Queen Henrietta Maria, stated: <Charles, by the Grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland,...

Virginia House of Burgesses (1632) ordinances of Jamestown: <It is also thought fit, That upon every Sunday the minister shall half an hour or more before evening prayer examine, catechize, and instruct the youth and ignorant persons of his parish, in the Ten Commandments the articles of the belief and in the Lord's prayer; and shall diligently hear, instruct and teach the catechism, set forth in book of common prayer, And all fathers, mothers, masters and mistresses shall cause their children, servants or apprentices which have not learned the catechism to come to the Church at the time appointed, obediently to...