American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

United States Congress (March 3, 1865) approved the instruction of Salmon Portland Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, to the U.S. Mint to prepare a "device" to inscribe U.S. coins with the motto: <In God We Trust.> 1865US001 In 1955, the Congress of the United States passed a bill, signed by President Eisenhower, providing that all U.S. Currency should bear the words: <In God We Trust.> 1865US002 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1865US001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). United States Congress. March 3, 1865, Congress approved instructions to...

George Washington Carver (c.1865-January 5, 1943) was an African American chemist of international fame in the field of agriculture. He introduced and popularized hundreds of uses for the peanut, soybean, pecan and sweet potato, which revolutionized the economy of the South by creating a market for these products. These crops also replenished the soil which had been depleted through years of cotton growth. By the early 1940's, George's agricultural contributions had resulted in peanut farming covering over 5 million acres, with over $500,000,000 in peanut industry production. But life did not start out easy for this scientist. George was born a...

Nevada (October 31, 1864) was the 36th State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of Nevada, adopted 1864, stated: <Preamble. We the people of the State of Nevada, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom...establish this Constitution.> 1864NV001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1864NV001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Nevada, 1864, Constitution, Preamble. Charles E. Rice, The Supreme Court and Public Prayer (New York: Fordham University Press, 1964), p. 172; "Hearings, Prayers in Public Schools and Other Matters," Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate (87th...

Maryland Constitution (1864): <PREAMBLE: We, the People of the State of Maryland, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberty, and taking into our serious consideration the best means of establishing a good Constitution in this State for the sure foundation and more permanent security thereof, declare... ARTICLE 24. That hereafter, in this State, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; and all persons held to service or labor as slaves, are hereby declared free... ARTICLE 36. That as it is the duty of every...

George Santayana (December 16, 1863-September 26, 1952) was an American philosopher, poet and essayist. He taught philosophy at Harvard University for 23 years. His works include: The Sense of Beauty, 1896; The Life of Reason, 1905-06; Character and Opinion in the United States, 1920; The Realm of Truth, 1920-40; The Last Puritan, 1935; Persons and Places, 1945; and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, 1946. George Santayana wrote in Reason in Common Sense, volume I of The Life of Reason (1905): <Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.> 1863GS001 In his Dialogues in Limbo, 1926, George...