American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1815) in the case of The Commonwealth v. Jesse Sharpless and others, 2 Serg. & R. 91-92, 97, 101-104 (1815), rendered the grand jury indictment as follows: <Jesse Sharpless...John Haines...George Haines...John Steel...Ephriam Martin...and Mayo...designing, contriving, and intending the morals, as well of youth as of divers other citizens of this commonwealth, to debauch and corrupt, and to raise and create in their minds inordinate and lustful desires...in a certain house there...scandalously did exhibit and show for money...a certain lewd...obscene painting, representing a man in an obscene...and indecent posture with a woman, to the manifest corruption and subversion...

William Bross (November 4, 1813-January 27, 1890) was an American journalist. He was the editor of the Chicago Tribune. In an interview, William Bross gave his reply to three questions inquiring how he attained success: <1. What maxims have had a strong influence on your life, and helped to your success?: The Proverbs of Solomon and other Scriptures. They were quoted a thousand times by my honored father, and caused an effort to do my duty each day, under a constant sense of obligation to my Saviour and fellow man. 2. What do you consider essential elements of success for a...

John Louis O'Sullivan (November 1813-February 24, 1895) was an American journalist and diplomat. He was the first to use the term "manifest destiny." Appointed U.S. Minister to Portugal, he also was the founder and editor of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, and the editor of the New York Morning News. From September to November, 1839, he wrote a series of editorials in the Democratic Review, in which he stated: <In this ennobling influence, Christianity and democracy are one. What, indeed, is democracy but Christianity in its earthly aspect, Christianity made effective among the political relations of men.> 1813OS001 In...

Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813-March 8, 1887) was an American clergyman, editor and abolitionist. He was the son of the New England theologian Lyman Beecher, and brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the novelist and reformer who wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin. Over 2,500 people flocked to hear him each week at the Plymouth Church of Brooklyn, New York. He increasingly used his pulpit to denounce civil corruption, support women's suffrage (the right to vote), and preach against slavery: <Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have...

David Dixon Porter (June 8, 1813-February 13, 1891) was an Admiral in the U.S. Navy, the second man to hold that position, (the first was his adopted brother, David Farragut). In the Civil War, David Dixon Porter helped Ulysses S. Grant at the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1863, and the attack on Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 1864-65. He eventually became the superintendent of U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. Admiral David Dixon Porter explained: <When one sees how much has been done for the world by the disciples of Christ and those professing the Christian religion, he must be astonished to find...