American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

New Hampshire Toleration Act (July 1, 1819): <An Act, in amendment of an Act entitled an Act, for Regulating Towns and the Choice of Town Officers, passed February 8th, Anno Domini 1791,- SECTION 1. Be it enacted...That the inhabitants of each town in this State...may grant...sums of money...for the support of schools, school houses, the maintenance of the poor, for laying out and repairing highways, for building and repairing bridges... SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the tenth section of the Act, to which this is an amendment, be and the same is hereby repealed. Provided that towns...

Walt Whitman (May 31, 1819-March 26, 1892) was an American poet. He had worked as a teacher, journalist and printer. He gained renown through his poems, Leaves of Grass, 1855-92. During the Civil War, he nursed wounded soldiers, eventually becoming ill himself. His free- verse poems expressed a democratic idealism, as seen in his Democratic Vistas, 1871. His other works include: Drum Taps, 1865, and Specimen Days, 1882-83. In "Starting from Paumanok," from his Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman wrote: <I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.... I say that the...

Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819-October 17, 1910) was the author of the Civil War song, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, which was a favorite of President Abraham Lincoln. She was the daughter of a Wall Street banker, and wife of Doctor Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-1876), who ran a school for the blind in Boston, (later the Perkins School for the Blind.) Doctor Howe and Julia together published the anti-slavery journal Commonwealth. Julia Ward Howe was very active in the abolition of the slavery movement, and later became a leader in the women's suffrage movement. In 1907, she became the...

Queen Victoria (May 24, 1819-January 22, 1901) Alexandrina Victoria was the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, 1837-1901, and the Empress of India, 1876-1901. Married to Prince Albert in 1840, she bore him nine children. She mourned the rest of her life after his death in 1861. She became immensely popular in her old age, being a symbol of Britain's imperial greatness. Upon her coronation at Westminster Abbey, June 28, 1837, three presents were given to her: the Sword of State, the Imperial Robe, and the Holy Bible. These words accompanied the Bible: <Our gracious Queen, we present you this...

James Russell Lowell (February 22, 1819-August 12, 1891) was an American poet, editor and diplomat. He was the son of Charles Lowell, minister of the West Church in Boston. A graduate of Harvard Law School, James Russell Lowell wrote poetry and prose which received wide acclaim. His well-known works include: Fable For Critics, 1848; and Biglow Papers, 1848-67. He edited the Atlantic Monthly, 1857-61; and the North American Review, 1862-72. He received honorary degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge, and became a professor at Harvard. Lowell was appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes as U.S. Minister to Spain, 1877-80, and England, 1880-85,...