American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Thomas McIntyre Cooley (January 6, 1824-September 12, 1898) was admitted to the bar in 1846 and commissioned by the legislature of Michigan to compile the state statutes in 1857. The following year he was chosen as reporter for the state Supreme Court. During his seven years in that position he edited 8 volumes of previous reports. In 1859, he became one of 3 professors at the law school of the University of Michigan, where he also was secretary and dean of the department. Thomas Cooley was appointed to the state Supreme Court in 1864 and served until 1885. At that time...

George MacDonald (December 10, 1824-September 18, 1905) was a Scottish novelist and writer of children's fairy tales. His best remembered stories include: The Princess and the Goblins and The Fairy Fleet. He began his career as a Congregational minister. He took up writing and became close friends with the well-known writers of the day, John Ruskin and Lewis Carroll. Carroll first recited his stories of Alice in Wonderland to George MacDonald's children, whose delighted response convinced Carroll to publish them. In David Elginbrod, published in 1863, George MacDonald wrote: <Here lie I, Martin Elginbrodde: Hae mercy o' my soul, Lord God; As...

Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1824) in the case of Updegraph v. The Commonwealth, 11 Serg. & R. 393-394, 398- 399, 402-407 (1824), recorded the court's declaration that: <Abner Updegraph...on the 12th day of December [1821]...not having the fear of God before his eyes...contriving and intending to scandalize, and bring into disrepute, and vilify the Christian religion and the scriptures of truth, in the presence and hearing of several persons...did unlawfully, wickedly and premeditatively, despitefully and blasphemously say..."The Holy Scriptures were a mere fable: that they were a contradiction, and that although they contained a number of good things, yet they contained a...

Henri Jean Fabre (December 22, 1823-October 11, 1915) was a French entomologist, considered the "Father of Modern Entomology." As a biologist, he pioneered unprecedented studies of insects in their habitats. He also authored numerous popular textbooks, including Souvenirs entomologigues, 1879-1907. Henri Jean Fabre, who was a personal friend of Louis Pasteur, asserted concerning God: <Without Him I understand nothing; without Him all is darkness....Every period had its manias. I regard Atheism as a mania. It is the malady of the age. You could take my skin from me more easily than my faith in God.> 1823HF001 -- American Quotations by William J....

Benjamin Harvey Hill (September 14, 1823-August 16, 1882) was an American statesman and orator from Georgia. He opposed secession prior to the Civil War, later became a U.S. Senator. In a tribute to Robert E. Lee, Benjamin Harvey Hill expressed: <He was a foe without hate, a friend without treachery, a soldier without cruelty, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices, a private citizen without wrong, a neighbor without reproach, a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar without his ambition, a Frederick without his tyranny, a Napoleon without his selfishness,...