American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Rhode Island Constitution (November 5, 1842): <PREAMBLE. We, the people of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, grateful to Almighty God for the civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing upon our endeavors to secure and to transmit the same, unimpaired, to succeeding generations, do ordain and establish this Constitution of government... ARTICLE 1, SECTION 3. Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free, and all attempts to influence it by temporal punishment, or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend to beget habits of hypocrisy...

William James (January 11, 1842-August 26, 1910) was a philosopher and psychologist, considered by some to be the father of modern psychology. A Harvard professor, his theory of ethics, called pragmatism, considered the distinction between truth and falsity, even in the area of religion and morals, not as important as solving problems. His works include The Principles of Psychology, 1890; The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902; Pragmatism, 1907. Contemporary social engineering of psychological attitudes has been influenced by his thought. William James stated: <There is nothing so absurd but if you repeat it often enough people will believe it.> 1842WJ001 --...

Connecticut State Motto (1842) stated: <Qui Transtulit Sustinet (He Who Transplanted Still Sustains)> 1842CT001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1842CT001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Connecticut State Motto, 1842. John Wilson Taylor, M.A., Ph.D., et al., The Lincoln Library of Essential Information (Buffalo, New York: The Frontier Press Company, 1935), p. 2067. The World Book Encyclopedia, 18 vols. (Chicago, IL: Field Enterprises, Inc., 1957; W.F. Quarrie and Company, 8 vols., 1917; World Book, Inc., 22 vols., 1989), Vol. 3, p. 1682.

Edward Rowland Sill (April 29, 1841-February 27, 1887) was an American poet and essayist. His works include: Opportunity; and the Fool's Prayer, in which he stated: <But Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool!> 1841ES001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1841ES001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Edward Rowland Sill, The Fool's Prayer. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 646.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (March 8, 1841-March 6, 1935) was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court for 30 years. Appointed in 1902 by President Theodore Roosevelt, he was known as the "Great Dissenter." The son of Oliver Wendell Holmes, the author and physician, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., graduated from Harvard College, served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and later became the editor of the American Law Review. He was a professor at the Harvard Law School before becoming the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. Known for his remarkable brilliance and humor, Oliver Wendell Holmes,...