American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

(Henry) Havelock Ellis (February 2, 1859-July 8, 1939) was an English author and psychologist. In his work, The Dance of Life, 1923, he wrote: <The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.> 1859HE001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1859HE001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). (Henry) Havelock Ellis, 1923, in The Dance of Life, chapter 5. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 690.

William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865-January 28, 1939) was an Irish author, theatrical producer and politician. His works include: The Countess Cathleen, 1892; Cathleen ni Houlihan, 1902; The Tower; The Winding Stair; A Vision; and The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1936. He was a senator in the Irish Parliament (Dail Eireann), 1922-28. In 1923, he received the Nobel Prize for literature. He wrote in The Wind Among the Reeds, 1899, Into the Twilight: <And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.> 1865WY001 In The Tower, 1928, Two Songs from a Play, II,...

United States Congress (March 3, 1865) approved the instruction of Salmon Portland Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, to the U.S. Mint to prepare a "device" to inscribe U.S. coins with the motto: <In God We Trust.> 1865US001 In 1955, the Congress of the United States passed a bill, signed by President Eisenhower, providing that all U.S. Currency should bear the words: <In God We Trust.> 1865US002 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1865US001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). United States Congress. March 3, 1865, Congress approved instructions to...

George Washington Carver (c.1865-January 5, 1943) was an African American chemist of international fame in the field of agriculture. He introduced and popularized hundreds of uses for the peanut, soybean, pecan and sweet potato, which revolutionized the economy of the South by creating a market for these products. These crops also replenished the soil which had been depleted through years of cotton growth. By the early 1940's, George's agricultural contributions had resulted in peanut farming covering over 5 million acres, with over $500,000,000 in peanut industry production. But life did not start out easy for this scientist. George was born a...

Nevada (October 31, 1864) was the 36th State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of Nevada, adopted 1864, stated: <Preamble. We the people of the State of Nevada, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom...establish this Constitution.> 1864NV001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1864NV001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Nevada, 1864, Constitution, Preamble. Charles E. Rice, The Supreme Court and Public Prayer (New York: Fordham University Press, 1964), p. 172; "Hearings, Prayers in Public Schools and Other Matters," Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate (87th...