American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822-June 10, 1909) was an American author. He wrote The Man Without a Country, 1863, and over fifty other books. He was the editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser and later became Chaplain of the U.S. Senate, 1903-1909. Everett Hale was the nephew of Nathan Hale, the revolutionary patriot who was executed by the British after uttering his last words, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Everett Hale proclaimed: <I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I...

Samuel Colgate (March 22, 1822-April 23, 1897) was an American soap manufacturer and philanthropist. He expanded the business of his father, William Colgate, into one of the largest establishments of its kind in the world. His father was also noted for giving at least a tenth of his net yearly earnings to charities, and organizing both the American Bible Society and the American and Foreign Bible Society. Samuel Colgate was a benefactor and trustee of Madison University in Hamilton, N.Y., which was renamed in 1890 to Colgate University. He was a member of the American Tract Society, President of the New...

United States Congress (1822) ratified in both the House and Senate of the United States, along with Great Britain and Ireland, the Convention for Indemnity under Award of Emperor of Russia as to the True Construction of the First Article of the Treaty of December 24, 1814. It begins with these words: <In the name of the Most Holy and Indivisible Trinity.> 1822US001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1822US001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). United States Congress, 1822, both the House and Senate of the United States,...

New York Constitution (1821): <PREAMBLE: We, the people of the state of New York, acknowledging with gratitude the grace and beneficence of God, in permitting us to make choice of our form of government, do establish this constitution. ARTICLE 7, SECTION 3. The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall be forever hereafter be allowed, within this state, to all mankind: but the liberty of conscience, hereby secured, shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of this state. ARTICLE 7,...

Clara Barton (December 25, 1821-April 12, 1912) organized The American Red Cross on May 21, 1881. She had been a schoolteacher, and moved to Washington at the outbreak of the Civil War. The first woman to be a clerk at the U.S. Patent Office, Clara Barton distributed relief supplies to wounded soldiers and, at the request of President Lincoln, aided for nearly four years in searching for missing soldiers. One day after carrying a wounded soldier off the battlefield of Antietam, September 17, 1862, Clara Barton said: <A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him,...