American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Seal of the Province of New Jersey (1697) had inscribed on it Proverbs 14:34: <Righteousness exalteth a nation.> 1697NS001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1697NS001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Seal of New Jersey Province, 1697, had inscribed on it Proverbs 14:34. Stephen K. McDowell and Mark A. Beliles, America's Providential History (Charlottesville, VA: Providence Press, 1989, 1994), p. 90.

New Jersey Colony (1697) Governor Basse stated: <It being very necessary for the good and prosperity of this province that our principal care be, in obedience to the laws of God, to endeavor as much as in us lyeth the extirpation of all sorts of looseness and profanity, and to unite in the fear and love of God and one another,.. Take due care that all laws made and provided for the suppression of vice and encouraging of religion and virtue, particularly the observance of the Lord's day, be duly put into execution.> 1697NJ001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer,...

Carolina Act (1696) Liberty of the Province to Aliens: <All Christians...(Papists only excepted) shall enjoy the full, free, and undisturbed exercise of their consciences, so as to be in the exercise of their worship according to the professed rules of their religion, without any hindrance, or molestation by any power either ecclesiastical or civil whatever.> 1696CA001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1696CA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Carolina Act, 1696, Liberty of the Province to Aliens.

Frame of Government of Pennsylvania (November 1, 1696) passed by Governor Markham: <WHEREAS, the late king Charles the Second, in the three and thirtieth year of his reign, by letters patent under the great seal of England, did, for the considerations therein mentioned, grant unto William Penn, his heirs and assigns, for ever, this colony, or tract of land, thereby erecting the same into a province, called Pennsylvania... And whereas divers persons within this government, cannot, for conscience sake, take an oath, upon any account whatsoever, Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all and every such person and...

Voltaire (November 21, 1694-May 30, 1778) whose given name was Francois Marie Arouet, was a French author. In a letter to M. Damilaville, May 16, 1767, Voltaire wrote: <I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.> 1694VL001 Voltaire expressed: <Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.> 1694VL002 In 1736, Voltaire wrote a satirical play Mahomet, describing it to Pope Benedict XIV, August 17, 1745, as: <...written in opposition to the founder of a false and barbarous sect to whom could I with...