American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Marcus Whitman (September 4, 1802-November 29, 1847) was an American pioneer, doctor and missionary to the Indians in the Pacific Northwest. Dr. Marcus Whitman had practiced medicine for eight years in Rushville, New York, and in Canada before being appointed, in 1836, as a missionary-physician to Oregon, with his wife Narcissa, by the American Board of Foreign Missions. They set up missions at Wailatpu near Walla Walla, Washington, and at Laowai. In 1842-43, responding to a potential threat of closure, Dr. Marcus Whitman made a 4,000-mile trek east to persuade the Mission Board not to disband the mission. He also...

Victor Marie Hugo (February 26, 1802-May 22, 1885) was a French author. He wrote: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1831; Les Contemplations, 1856; Les Miserables, 1862; Legend of the Centuries, 1859-83; and numerous other great works, was deeply involved in politics, and was exiled from France a number of times. Victor Marie Hugo avouched: <England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England.> 1802VH001 Victor Hugo remarked: <Courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones, and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in...

Gustave de Beaumont (February 6, 1802-March 30, 1865) was a French historian, published his work in Paris titled, Marie ou l'Esclavage aux E'tas-Unis, 1835. In this work he documented his travels in America with Alexis de Tocqueville, May 1831-February 1832. He was commissioned by the French Government to study the American prisons, democracy, and religion. In his work, Marie ou l'Esclavage aux E'tas-Unis, 1835, Gustave de Beaumont reported: <The principal established religious sects in North America are the Methodists, Anabaptists, Catholics, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Quakers or Friends, Universalists, Congregationalists, Unitarians, Dutch Reformed, German Reformed, Moravians, Evangelical Lutherans, etc. The Anabaptists are...

Massachusetts Grand Jury (1802) appointed by Judge Nathaniel Freeman, defined: <The laws of the Christian system, as embraced by The Bible, must be respected as of high authority in all our courts and it cannot be thought improper for the officers of such government to acknowledge their obligation to be governed by its rule.... [Our government] originating in the voluntary compact of a people who in that very instrument profess the Christian religion, it may be considered, not as republic Rome was, a Pagan, but a Christian republic.> 1802MS001 The State of Massachusetts paid the salaries of the Congregational ministers...

Danbury Baptist Association Letter (October 7, 1801) to President Thomas Jefferson, regarding the State of Connecticut's establishment of the Congregational Denomination from its founding till disestablishment in 1818. Jefferson had previously helped Baptists in Virginia by disestablishing the Anglican denomination there in 1786: <The address of the Danbury Baptist Association, in the State of Connecticut; assembled October 7th 1801. To Thomas Jefferson Esq., the President of the united States of America. Sir, Among the many millions in America and Europe who rejoice in your Election to office, we embrace the first opportunity which we have enjoyed in our collective capacity,...