American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Alfred North Whitehead (February 15, 1861-December 30, 1947) was a British philosopher and mathematician. He was appointed to teach at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1910; University College, London, 1911; professor of applied mathematics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, 1914; and professor of philosophy at Harvard University, 1924. His works include: Principia Mathematica 1910-13; Principles of Natural Knowledge 1919; and The Concept of Nature. In Science and the Modern World, 1925, chapter 12, Alfred North Whitehead wrote: <The religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash...

Kansas (January 29, 1861) was the 34th State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of Kansas, adopted 1859, stated: <Preamble. We, the people of Kansas, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious privileges...establish this Constitution.> 1861KS001 <Bill of Rights, Section 7. The right to worship God according to the dictates of conscience shall never be infringed.> 1861KS002 <Article I, Section VII. Religion, morality, and knowledge, however, being essential to good government, it shall be the duty of the legislature to make suitable provision...for the encouragement of schools and the means of instruction.> 1861KS003 -- American Quotations...

Virginia (1860) census of Virginia revealed: <963 free Negro residents.> 1860VA001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1860VA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Virginia, 1860, Census.

William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860-July 26, 1925) was the Democratic candidate for President in 1896, 1900, 1908. He had been a Colonel in the Spanish-American War, a U.S. Representative from Nebraska, 1891-95, and U.S. Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson. He was the editor of the Omaha World Herald, and founded The Commoner journal. He was celebrated for having successfully participated in the prosecution during the John Scopes evolution trial in Tennessee. His statue is in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall. Williams Jennings Bryan gave over 600 public speeches during his Presidential campaigns, with his most famous being...

Katherine Lee Bates (August 12, 1859-March 28, 1929) was an American poet and educator. She was professor of English literature at Wellesley College, 1891-1925. In 1892, after seeing the inspiring view from atop Pike's Peak in Colorado, she penned the patriotic song America the Beautiful. This song became so popular that in 1920 it almost became the U.S. National Anthem: <O Beautiful for Spacious Skies, For Amber Waves of Grain, For Purple Mountain Majesties Above the Fruited Plain! America! America! God Shed His Grace on Thee And Crowned Thy Good with Brotherhood From Sea to Shining Sea! O Beautiful for Pilgrims...