American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Oregon (February 14, 1859) was the 33rd State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of Oregon, adopted 1857, stated: <Bill of Rights, Article I, Section 2. All men shall be secure in the Natural right, to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their consciences.> 1859OR001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1859OR001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Oregon, 1857, Constitution, Bill of Rights, Article I, Section 2. Charles E. Rice, The Supreme Court and Public Prayer (New York: Fordham University Press, 1964), p....

Minnesota (May 11, 1858) was the 32nd State admitted to the Union. On August 7, 1789, President George Washington signed into law an Act of Congress which prohibited slavery from entering the territory, titled: <An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, Article VI.> 1858MN001 Congress enabled the establishment of the government of Minnesota, provided it followed the general tenets of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. The Northwest Ordinance stated: <SECTION 13. And, for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and...

Howard Atwood Kelly (February 20, 1858-January 12, 1943) was an American surgeon and premier gynecologist in the early 20th century. He founded Kensington Hospital for Women in Philadelphia; was Professor of Obstetrics at the University of Pennsylvania; and was Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Johns Hopkins University for over 20 years, 1889-1919. He established a sanatorium in Baltimore, Md., which was later named the Howard A. Kelly Hospital. Among his over 500 articles to medical journals, he wrote many authoritative medical books, among which was one titled: <A Scientific Man and His Bible.> 1858HK001 -- American Quotations by William J....

Carter Glass (January 4, 1858-May 28, 1946) was an American politician. He served as a U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1920- 46; Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, 1918-20; and a U.S. Representative, 1902-18. His influence as chairman of the Committee of Banking and Currency, brought about the passage of the Federal Reserve Bank Act in 1918. On March 27, 1937, Senator Carter Glass warned: <There has been no such mandate from the people to rape the Supreme Court or to tamper with the Constitution. The Constitution belongs to the people. It...was ratified by the people as the Supreme...

Pope Pius XI (May 31, 1857-February 10, 1939) whose given name was Achille Ratti, held the position of Pontiff from 1922-39. He exclaimed: <Christian teaching alone, in its majestic integrity, can give full meaning and compelling motive to the demand for human rights and liberties, because it alone gives worth and dignity to human personality.> 1857PP001 In light of prevailing trends, Pope Pius XI spoke: <Woman apparently is doing everything possible to destroy in herself those very qualifications which render her beautiful, namely, modesty, purity, and chastity. It is a blindness which can only be explained by the fascination of that...