American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

New York Constitution (1821): <PREAMBLE: We, the people of the state of New York, acknowledging with gratitude the grace and beneficence of God, in permitting us to make choice of our form of government, do establish this constitution. ARTICLE 7, SECTION 3. The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference, shall be forever hereafter be allowed, within this state, to all mankind: but the liberty of conscience, hereby secured, shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of this state. ARTICLE 7,...

Clara Barton (December 25, 1821-April 12, 1912) organized The American Red Cross on May 21, 1881. She had been a schoolteacher, and moved to Washington at the outbreak of the Civil War. The first woman to be a clerk at the U.S. Patent Office, Clara Barton distributed relief supplies to wounded soldiers and, at the request of President Lincoln, aided for nearly four years in searching for missing soldiers. One day after carrying a wounded soldier off the battlefield of Antietam, September 17, 1862, Clara Barton said: <A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him,...

Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski (November 11, 1821-February 9, 1881) was a Russian writer. His works rank with Tolstoi as masterpieces of the psychological novel. He was sentence by the czar to ten years of hard labor in Siberia as a result of his revolutionary involvement. This provided him with great insight upon which to write on the human spirit and suffering. His works include: Crime and Punishment, 1866; The Idiot, 1868-69; The Possessed, 1869- 72; in addition to The House of the Dead; Insulted and the Injured; and Memoirs from Underground. In his work, Brothers Karamazov, written 1879-80, Dostoevski wrote: <If you...

Sir George Williams (October 11, 1821-November 6, 1905) was the founder of the Young Men's Christian Association (Y.M.C.A.) in 1844. He declared: <My life-long experience as a business man, and as a Christian worker among young men, has taught me that the only power in this world that can effectually keep one from evil and sin, in all the varied and often attractive forms which they assume, is that which comes from an intimate knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ as a present Saviour. And I can also heartily testify that the safe Guide-Book by which one may be led to...

Missouri (August 10, 1821) was the 24th State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of Missouri, adopted 1945 stated: <Preamble. We, the people of Missouri, with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, and grateful for His goodness...establish this Constitution.> 1821MO001 <Bill of Rights, Article I, Section 5. That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences.> 1821MO002 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1821MO001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Missouri,...