American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Horace Mann (May 4, 1796-August 2, 1859) was an American legislator and educator. He played a leading role establishing the public school system in the United States. As a lawyer, Horace Mann served in the Massachusetts legislature as a state representative, 1827-33, and as a state senator, 1833-37. In 1848, he became a U.S. Representative and strongly fought to end slavery in America. Horace Mann was known for being the Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education; founding the first state normal school in the United States in 1839; and being the president of Antioch College in Ohio. In...

George Nixon Briggs (April 12, 1796-September 12, 1861) was an American politician and philanthropist. He was the Governor of Massachusetts, and a U.S. Representative for six successive terms. In May of 1850, while President of the American Baptist Missionary Union, he addressed the missionaries in Buffalo: <You go to an embassy compared with which all the embassies of men dwindle into insignificance. You go forth as ambassadors of Christ. You go to crumble idols-to convey light to benighted minds-to kindle love to God in the souls of ungodly men. Who can overestimate the qualifications necessary for such work? The fervent,...

Francis Wayland (March 11, 1796-September 30, 1865) was an American clergyman, author and educator. He was the president of Brown University, 1827-55, and the first president of the American Institute of Instruction, 1830. He was instrumental in devising the school system for Providence, Rhode Island. A graduate of Union College and Harvard University, Francis Wayland wrote: Elements of Moral Science, 1835; Elements of Political Economy, 1837; Thoughts on the Present Collegiate System in the United States, 1842; and A Memoir of the Life of the Rev. Adoniram Judson, D.D., 1842. As a well recognized American clergyman, Francis Wayland stated: <That...

Maryland Constitution (1795) Amendment proposed by Act of 1794: <CHAPTER 49. Every person being a member of either of the Religious sects or societies called Quakers, Menonists, Dunkers or Nicolites or New Quakers and who shall be conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath on any occasion being otherwise qualified and duly Elected a Senator, Delegate, or Elector of the Senate, or being otherwise qualified and duly appointed or elected to any office of Profit or Trust, on making affirmation instead of taking the several Oaths appointed by the Constitution and Form of Government, and the several Acts of Assembly of...

Benjamin Franklin Butler (December 14, 1795-November 8, 1858) was an American politician and Union General during the Civil War. He served as the U.S. Attorney General, 1833-38, under President Andrew Jackson; the U.S. Secretary of War, 1836-37; and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, 1838-48. In addition to serving in the New York State Legislature, Benjamin Franklin Butler was the head of the electoral College of New York in 1845. In an address delivered in 1834 at Alexandria, D.C., Benjamin Franklin Butler stated: <He is truly happy, whatever may be his temporal condition, who can call God his...