American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850-November 9, 1924) was a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, who thwarted Woodrow Wilson's efforts to have the United States submit to the League of Nations. Henry Cabot Lodge addressed the New England Society of Brooklyn, December 21, 1888: <Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs...But let us have done with British-Americans and Irish-Americans and German-Americans, and so on, and all be Americans...If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to...

Wisconsin (May 29, 1848) was the 30th State admitted to the Union. On August 7, 1789, President George Washington signed into law an Act of Congress which prohibited slavery from entering the territory, titled: <An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, Article VI.> 1848WI001 Congress enabled the establishment of the government of Wisconsin, provided it followed the general tenets of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. The Northwest Ordinance stated: <SECTION 13. And, for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and...

United States Congress (1848) ratified the peace treaty with Mexico which ended the Mexican War and brought the territories of California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming, into the Union. The treaty began: <In the Name of Almighty God: The United States and the United Mexican States animated by a sincere desire to put an end to the calamities of the war....who, after a reciprocal communication of their respective full powers, have, under the protection of Almighty God, the Author of Peace, arranged, agreed upon, and signed the following: Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits, and Settlement between...

New York Constitution (1846): <PREAMBLE: We, the People of the State of New York, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, in order to secure its blessings, do establish this Constitution.> 1846NY001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1846NY001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). New York Constitution, 1846.

Iowa (December 28, 1846) was the 29th State admitted to the Union. On August 7, 1789, slavery was prohibited from entering the territory of Iowa by an Act of Congress, introduce by Rufus King and signed into law by President George Washington, titled: <An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio, Article VI.> 1846IA001 The Constitution of the State of Iowa, adopted 1857, stated: <Preamble. We, the People of the State of Iowa, grateful to the Supreme Being for the blessings hitherto enjoyed, and feeling our dependence on Him for a continuation...