American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Texas Declaration of Independence (March 2, 1836): <UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE BY THE DELEGATES OF THE PEOPLE OF TEXAS IN GENERAL CONVENTION AT THE TOWN OF WASHINGTON, ON THE SECOND DAY OF MARCH, 1836. When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted; and so far from being a guarantee for their inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression.... In such a crisis...the inherent and inalienable right of...

North Carolina Constitution (1835): <ARTICLE 32. That no person, who shall deny the being of God or the truth of the Christian religion, or the Divine authority either of the Old or New Testaments, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any office or place of trust or profit in the civil department within this State.> 1835NC001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1835NC001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). North Carolina Constitution, 1835.

Phillips Brooks (December 13, 1835-January 23, 1893) was an American writer and speaker. He attended Harvard while James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow taught there. He pastored in Philadelphia before becoming the rector of Trinity Church in Boston, and later the bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Massachusetts. In 1867, he wrote the song, O Little Town of Bethlehem: <O little town of Bethlehem! How still we see thee lie; Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by; Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of...

Mark Twain (November 30, 1835-April 21, 1910) a river measurement meaning "two fathoms deep," was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Growing up along the Mississippi River in Hannibal, Missouri, he left school at age 12, when his father died.  Becoming a printer's apprentice, he worked briefly for his brother Orion Clemens, who owned a newspaper. For the next several years, he was a "tramp printer," working and writing in St. Louis, New York City, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and numerous smaller cities. In 1857-61, as an apprentice Mississippi river pilot, he acquired his pen name from an old steamboat pilot who...

Francis Marion Cockrell (October 1, 1834-December 13, 1915) was a U.S. Senator from Missouri. In 1875, at the beginning of his five consecutive terms, 1875-1910, he stated: <Christianity is a reality, not an appearance. Were it a myth devised by cunning impostors, it would have come to naught before this. It has done more to fraternize the races than all human systems of religion together. The Bible is supreme over all books. Beside it there is none other. Its Divine truths meet the wants of a world-wide humanity.> 1834FC001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved,...