American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Wesley Merritt (June 16, 1836-December 3, 1910) was a Major General in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was the superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, 1882-87, and Commander of the first Philippine expedition to occupy Manila in August of 1898. He expressed: <The principles of life as taught in the Bible, the inspired Word, and exemplified in the matchless Life of Him "who spake as never man spake," are the rules of moral action which have resulted in civilizing the world. The testimony of great men, like Gladstone and his fellow statesmen; like Havelock and...

Arkansas (June 15, 1836) was the 25th State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of Arkansas, adopted October 30, 1874, stated: <Preamble. We, the people of the State of Arkansas, grateful to Almighty God for the privilege of choosing our own form of government, for our civil and religious liberty, and desiring to perpetuate its blessings and secure the same to ourselves and posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution.> 1836AR001 <Article II, Section 24. All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences.> 1836AR002 <Article II,...

William Henry Venable (April 29, 1836-July 6, 1920) in Johnny Appleseed, st. 25, wrote: <Remember Johnny Appleseed, All ye who love the apple; He served his kind by word and deed, In God's grand greenwood chapel.> 1836WV001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1836WV001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). William Henry Venable, in Johnny Appleseed, st. 25. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 765.

Texas Declaration of Independence (March 2, 1836): <UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE BY THE DELEGATES OF THE PEOPLE OF TEXAS IN GENERAL CONVENTION AT THE TOWN OF WASHINGTON, ON THE SECOND DAY OF MARCH, 1836. When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted; and so far from being a guarantee for their inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression.... In such a crisis...the inherent and inalienable right of...

North Carolina Constitution (1835): <ARTICLE 32. That no person, who shall deny the being of God or the truth of the Christian religion, or the Divine authority either of the Old or New Testaments, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any office or place of trust or profit in the civil department within this State.> 1835NC001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1835NC001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). North Carolina Constitution, 1835.