American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Maryland Constitution (1851): <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 33. That as it is the duty of every man to worship God in such manner -as he thinks most acceptable to Him, all persons are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty, wherefore, no person ought, by any law, to be molested in his person or estate, on...

Robert Louis Stevenson (November 13, 1850-December 3, 1894) was a Scottish author and novelist. He wrote: New Arabian Nights, 1882; Treasure Island, 1883; A Child's Garden of Verses, 1885; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1886; and Kidnapped, 1886. He suffered from tuberculosis, and in an effort to improve his health, sailed with his American wife to the Island of Samoa. They settled there and he continued to write. In Songs of Travel-If This Were Faith, Stevenson wrote: <God, if this were enough, That I see things bare to the buff.> 1850RS001 In 1889, in his work The Master of Ballantrae-Mr. Mackellar's...

California (September 9, 1850) was the 31st State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of California, adopted May 7, 1879, stated: <Preamble. We, the People of the State of California, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, in order to secure and perpetuate its blessings, do establish this Constitution.> 1850CA001 <Article I, Section 4. The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall forever be allowed in this State; and no person shall be rendered incompetent as a witness on account of his opinions on matters of religious belief; but the liberty...

Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850-November 9, 1924) was a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, who thwarted Woodrow Wilson's efforts to have the United States submit to the League of Nations. Henry Cabot Lodge addressed the New England Society of Brooklyn, December 21, 1888: <Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs...But let us have done with British-Americans and Irish-Americans and German-Americans, and so on, and all be Americans...If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to...

Wisconsin (May 29, 1848) was the 30th 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.> 1848WI001 Congress enabled the establishment of the government of Wisconsin, 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...