American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Henry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) was one of the best-known ministers of his day. He pastored the First Presbyterian Church, New York City, and later the Park Avenue Baptist Church, New York City. He wrote numerous works, including: The Meaning of Prayer; Twelve Tests of Character; The Man From Nazareth; Martin Luther; The Manhood of the Master; On Being a Real Person; On Being Fit to Live; and his autobiography The Living of These Days. In 1920, he wrote The Meaning of Service, in which he stated: <The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It...

United States Supreme Court (1878) rendered its opinion on the case of Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145, 165 (1878). The same men that passed the act creating religious freedom in Virginia, also passed very strict laws against polygamy and sexual immorality, as documented in the Supreme Court's decision of 1878: <It is a significant fact that on the 8th of December, 1788, after the passage of the act establishing religious freedom, and after the convention of Virginia had recommended as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States the declaration in a bill of rights that "all men...

Duquesne University (1878) was founded by the Catholic Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Its motto stated: <Spiritus est qui vivificat (It is the Spirit that gives light).> 1878DU001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1878DU001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Duquesne University, 1878, Motto. Charles Wallis, ed., Our American Heritage (NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1970), p. 176.

Georgia Constitution (1877) also the wording in Georgia's Constitutions of 1945, 1976, 1983: <PREAMBLE: To perpetuate the principles of free government, insure justice to all, preserve peace, promote the interest and happiness of the citizen ("and of the family" -added 1983) and transmit to posterity the enjoyment of liberty, we, the people of Georgia, relying upon the protection and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish this Constitution. ARTICLE ON FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE: All men have the natural and inalienable right to worship God, each according to the dictates of his own conscience, and no human authority should, in any case,...

New Hampshire Constitution (1877): <ARTICLE 14 amended, removing requirement that office holders be Protestant.> 1877NH001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1877NH001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). New Hampshire, 1877, Constitution.