Eisenhower warned, June 24, 1957: "The National Government was itself the creature of the States ... Yet today it is often made to appear that the creature, Frankenstein-like, is determined to destroy the creators."
He demonstrated the telegraph for the first time on May 24, 1844, allowing Annie Ellsworth, the young daughter of a friend, to chose the message. She selected a verse from the Bible, Numbers 23:23, "What hath God wrought?"
Verrazzano claimed the land for France, naming it "Francesca," or as it was on his brother's map, Nova Gallia (New France). Being the first documented European to explore North America, he is memorialized by the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn.
On the Bicentennial of Air and Space Flight, February 7, 1983, President Ronald Reagan said: "We Americans have always been at our best when we've faced challenge ... Whether ... Daniel Boone or Charles Lindbergh ... I've always believed that mankind is capable of greatness ... But it depends on us. God gave angels wings. He gave mankind dreams. And with His help, there's no limit to what can be accomplished."
Harvard President Samuel Langdon stated, 1788: "The ISRAELITES may be considered as a pattern to the world in all ages ... Government ... on republican principles required laws; without which it must have degenerated immediately into ... absolute monarchy ... How unexampled was this quick progress of the ISRAELITES, from abject slavery, ignorance, and almost total want of order, to a national establishment perfected in all its parts far beyond all other kingdoms and states!"