American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Georgia Constitution (1877) also the wording in Georgia's Constitutions of 1945, 1976, 1983: <PREAMBLE: To perpetuate the principles of free government, insure justice to all, preserve peace, promote the interest and happiness of the citizen ("and of the family" -added 1983) and transmit to posterity the enjoyment of liberty, we, the people of Georgia, relying upon the protection and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish this Constitution. ARTICLE ON FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE: All men have the natural and inalienable right to worship God, each according to the dictates of his own conscience, and no human authority should, in any case,...

New Hampshire Constitution (1877): <ARTICLE 14 amended, removing requirement that office holders be Protestant.> 1877NH001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1877NH001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). New Hampshire, 1877, Constitution.

Sir James Hopwood Jeans (September 11, 1877-September 16, 1946) was an English physicist and astronomer. He studied the nature of gases and sun radiations. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge University, he became a professor at Princeton University in the area of applied mathematics, and later a professor at Cambridge. He was a research associate at the Mount Wilson Observatory, Pasadena, California, 1923-44; Secretary of the Royal Society; president of the Royal Astronomical Society of England; and was knighted in 1928. His works include: The Universe Around Us, 1929; The Mysterious Universe, 1930; and Physics and Philosophy, 1942. In his work, The Mysterious...

William W. Bennett (1877) a Confederate Chaplain during the Civil War, published his remarkable documentary, A Narrative of the Great Revival Which Prevailed in the Southern Armies. This was a first-hand account of the spiritual renewal that occurred in General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. As head of the Methodist Soldiers' Tract Association, Chaplain William W. Bennett wrote of the conversions in the Confederate ranks: <Up to January, 1865, it was estimated that nearly 150,000 soldiers had been converted during the progress of the war, and it was believed that fully one-third of all the soldiers in the field were...

Colorado State Motto (August 1, 1876) stated: <Nil Sine Numine (Nothing without God).> 1876CS005 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1876CS005. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Colorado State Motto, August 1, 1876. The World Book Encyclopedia, 18 vols. (Chicago, IL: Field Enterprises, Inc., 1957; W.F. Quarrie and Company, 8 vols., 1917; World Book, Inc., 22 vols., 1989), Vol. 3, p. 1602. John Wilson Taylor, M.A., Ph.D., et al., The Lincoln Library of Essential Information (Buffalo, New York: The Frontier Press Company, 1935), p. 2067. Charles Wallis, ed., Our...