American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Delaware Constitution (1792): <PREAMBLE. Through Divine goodness all men have, by nature, the rights of worshipping and serving their Creator according to the dictates of their consciences, of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring and protecting reputation and property, and, in general, of attaining objects suitable to their condition, without injury by one to another; and as these rights are essential to their welfare, for the due exercise thereof, power is inherent in them; and, therefore, all just authority in the institutions of political society is derived from the people, and established with their consent, to advance their...

Charles Grandison Finney (August 29, 1792-August 16, 1875) was an American revivalist, author and educator of the early 19th century. He was the president of Oberlin College, in Ohio, 1852. He believed that every human life was valuable and strongly supported giving freedom to the slaves. His college was a busy station on the Underground Railroad, which secretly brought slaves to freedom. Under Charles Finney's direction as president, Oberlin College was the first university in America to award college degrees to women and to blacks. His college graduated Mary Jane Patterson, the first black woman ever to receive a bachelor's...

Kentucky (June 1, 1792) was the 15th State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of Kentucky, adopted 1799, stated: <Article VI, Section 7. The manner of administering an oath or affirmation...shall be esteemed by the General Assembly the most solemn appeal to God.> 1792KY001 The Constitution of the State of Kentucky, adopted 1891, stated: <Preamble. We, the people of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberties we enjoy and invoking the continuance of these blessings...establish this Constitution.>1792KY002 <Bill of Rights, Section 1. The right of worshipping Almighty God according...

Sir John Frederick William Herschel (March 7, 1792-May 11, 1871) was an English astronomer, the son of the great astronomer Sir William Herschel. He took his father’s telescope to South Africa where he discovered and catalogued over 500 new stars and nebulae seen from the southern hemisphere. When the HMS Beagle landed at Cape Town, South Africa, on June 3, 1836, the young Charles Darwin visited Sir John Frederick Herschel. Sir John Frederick Herschel was quoted by Marcel de Serres in 'On the Physical Facts in the Bible Compared with the Discoveries of the Modern Sciences' (The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal,...

Henry Opukahai'a (1792-February 17, 1818) was the first Hawaiian convert to Christianity. Orphaned at age 10, he was raised by his uncle to be a pagan priest (kahuna) of the Hawaiian religion. He grew disillusioned with the rituals and chants, and in 1808, left with his Hawaiian friend, Thomas Hopu, on an American whaling ship bound for New York. The ship was under the command of Captain Brintnel, who then brought them to New Haven, Connecticut. There he was befriended by students and professors of Yale College and soon became a Christian. He studied Greek and Hebrew and translated sections...