American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Edward Rowland Sill (April 29, 1841-February 27, 1887) was an American poet and essayist. His works include: Opportunity; and the Fool's Prayer, in which he stated: <But Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool!> 1841ES001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1841ES001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Edward Rowland Sill, The Fool's Prayer. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 646.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (March 8, 1841-March 6, 1935) was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court for 30 years. Appointed in 1902 by President Theodore Roosevelt, he was known as the "Great Dissenter." The son of Oliver Wendell Holmes, the author and physician, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., graduated from Harvard College, served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and later became the editor of the American Law Review. He was a professor at the Harvard Law School before becoming the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. Known for his remarkable brilliance and humor, Oliver Wendell Holmes,...

Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840-December 1, 1914) was a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy. He came out of retirement to serve in the Spanish-American War. He was a member of the American delegation to the peace conference at The Hague, 1899; and was elected president of the American Historical Association, 1902. He held the position of president of the Naval War College at Newport, R.I., 1886-89, 1892-93, and authored books on naval strategy. His great works, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783; and The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1892, were not...

James Schouler (March 20, 1839-1920) American lawyer, historian and lecturer at Boston University School of Law, the National University Law School, Washington, DC, and at Johns Hopkins University. He was president of the American Historical Association, 1896- 1897. He is best know for writing History of the United States under the Constitution, 1789-1865 (Washington, DC: William H. Morrison, 1887), in which stated: <The Barbary powers were for a time overawed, and the United States thus set the first example among Christian nations of making reprisal instead of ransom the rule of security against these commercial marauders. In this respect Jefferson's conduct...

Pennsylvania Constitution (1838): <SECTION 3. That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences; that no man can of right be compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or to maintain any Ministry, against his consent; that no human authority can, in any such case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience; and that no preference shall ever be given, by law, to any religious establishments or modes of worship. SECITION 4. That no person who acknowledges the being of God and a...