American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024
Brendan of Clonfert (c.484-c.577)
Alfred the Great (c.849-October 26, 899)
Henry de Bracton (c.1210-1268)
Thomas Aquinas (c.1224-March 7, 1274)
Magnus Eriksson, II (1316-1374)
Declaration of Arbroath (April 6, 1320)
John Wycliffe (c.1330-December 31, 1384)
Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1342-October 25, 1400)
John Hus (c.1372-July 6, 1415)
Thomas a` Kempis (c.1379-August 8, 1471)
Johannes Gutenberg (c.1400-February 3, 1468)
Christopher Columbus (1451-May 20, 1506)
Isabella I (April 22, 1451-November 26, 1504)
Bartolome' de Las Casas (August 1474-July 17, 1566)
Michelangelo (March 6, 1475-February 18, 1564)
Martin Luther (November 10, 1483-February 18, 1546)
Hugh Latimer (c.1485-October 16, 1555)
Hernando Cortez (1485-December 2, 1547)
Thomas Cranmer (July 2, 1489-March 21, 1556)
King Henry VII Patent to John Cabot (March 5, 1496)
John Calvin (July 10, 1509-May 27, 1564)
Ambroise Pare' (1510-December 20, 1590)
John Knox (c.1514-November 24, 1572)
William I (April 24, 1533-July 10, 1584)
Elizabeth I (September 7, 1533-March 24, 1603)
Commission to Jacque Cartier (March 1534)
Miguel de Cervantes (September 29, 1547-April 23, 1616)
Sir Walter Raleigh (c.1552-October 29, 1618)
Sir Francis Bacon (January 22, 1561-April 9, 1626)
Galileo Galilei (February 15, 1564-January 8, 1642)
William Shakespeare (baptized April 26, 1564-April 23, 1616)
St. Johns River Settlement, Florida (June 30, 1564)
Pedro Fernandez de Quiros (1565-1615)
William Brewster (1567-April 1644)
Johannes Kepler (December 27, 1571-November 15, 1630)
John Donne (1572-March 31, 1631)
John Pory (1572-September 1635)
John Robinson (c.1575-March 1, 1625)
Samuel de Champlain (c.1580-December 25, 1635)
Captain John Smith (c. January 1580-June 21, 1631)
Peter Bulkeley (January 31, 1583-March 9, 1659)
Hugo Grotius (April 10, 1583-August 28, 1645)
Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh (1584)
John Cotton (December 1585-December 23, 1652)
Thomas Hooker (July 7, 1586-July 7, 1647)
John Winthrop (January 22, 1588-April 5, 1649)
William Bradford (March 1590-May 9, 1657)
Pocahontas (c.1595-March 1617)
Edward Winslow (October 18, 1595-May 8, 1655)
Edward Johnson (September 1598-April 23, 1672)
Oliver Cromwell (April 25, 1599-September 3, 1658)
Samuel Rutherford (c.1600-March 1661)
Roger Williams (c.1603-March 1683)
Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603-October 10, 1659)
John Eliot (1604-May 21, 1690)
First Charter of Virginia (April 10, 1606)
John Harvard (November 1607-September 14, 1638)
John Milton (December 9, 1608-November 8, 1674)
Second Charter of Virginia (May 23, 1609)
John Clark (October 8, 1609-April 20, 1676)
Sir Matthew Hale (November 1, 1609-December 25, 1676)
Third Charter of Virginia (March 12, 1611)
Richard Crashaw (c.1613-August 25, 1649)
Sir Henry Vane (baptized May 26, 1613-June 14, 1662)
New Netherlands History (1613)
Charter granted by United Netherlands (March 27, 1614)
Richard Baxter (November 12, 1615-December 8, 1691)
Charter of New England Petition (March 3, 1619)
Virginia House of Burgesses (July 30, 1619)
Virginia House of Burgesses (August 4, 1619)
Virginia Charter of Berkeley Hundred (December 4, 1619)
Plymouth Council Charter (November 3, 1620)
Mayflower Compact (November 11, 1620)
Virginia House of Burgesses (July 24, 1621)
Virginia House of Burgesses (August 3, 1621)
Virginia Colony (March 22, 1622)
Henry Vaughan (April 17, 1622-April 23, 1695)
Virginia House of Burgesses (1623)
Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623-August 19, 1662)
Virginia House of Burgesses (March 5, 1624)
George Fox (July 1624-January 13, 1691)
Warrant for William Ussling (December 21, 1624)
Articles for New Netherlands Colony (1624)
Charter Granted by Gustave Adolphus (June 14, 1626)
Purchase of Manhattan (November 5, 1626)
Robert Boyle (January 25, 1627-December 30, 1691)
Company of a Hundred Associates (April 29, 1627)
John Ray (November 29, 1627-January 17, 1705)
Dutch Reformed Church Letter (August 11, 1628)
John Bunyan (November 1628-August 31, 1688)
New England Grant (February 12, 1629)
First Charter of Massachusetts (March 4, 1629)
Charter of New Netherlands (June 7, 1629)
Cambridge Agreement (August 26, 1629)
Virginia House of Burgesses (October 16, 1629)
Grant to Sir Robert Heath (October 30, 1629)
Grant of New Hampshire (November 7, 1629)
Grant to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason (November 17, 1629)
New Plymouth Colony Charter (1629)
Samuel von Pufendorf (January 8, 1632-October 13, 1694)
Virginia House of Burgesses (February 24, 1632)
Virginia House of Burgesses (1632)
Charter of Maryland (June 20, 1632)
John Locke (August 29, 1632-October 28, 1704)
Samuel Pepys (February 23, 1633-May 26, 1703)
Samuel Pepys (February 23, 1633-May 26, 1703)
Maryland Colony (March 25, 1634)
Virginia Royal Commission (April 28, 1634)
Sir Edmund Plowden's Grant (1634)
Grant of Province of Masonia (April 22, 1635)
Grant of Province of New Hampshire (April 22, 1635)
New England Charter Surrender (April 25, 1635)
Massachusetts General Court (1636)
Declaration of Bodie Politick (March 1637)
Proclamation Against Disorderly Transporting (April 30, 1637)
Jacques Marquette (June 1, 1637-May 18, 1675)
New England Commission (July 23, 1637)
Connecticut General Court (1639)
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (January 14, 1639)
New Haven Colony (June 4, 1639)
Increase Mather (June 21, 1639-August 23, 1723)
Exeter, New Hampshire (August 4, 1639)
Grant of the Province of Maine (1639)
Plymouth Patent Surrender (March 2, 1640)
Plantation Agreement of Providence (September 6, 1640)
Government of Rhode Island (March 19, 1641)
Massachusetts Body of Liberties (December 1641)
Sir Isaac Newton (December 25, 1642-March 20, 1727)
Patent for Providence Plantations (March 14, 1643)
Virginia House of Burgesses (March 2, 1643)
Virginia House of Burgesses (1643)
New England Confederation Constitution (May 19, 1643)
Government of New Haven Colony (November 6, 1643)
New Haven Colony Charter (April 3, 1644)
William Penn (October 14, 1644-July 30, 1718)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (July 1, 1646-November 14, 1716)
Virginia House of Burgesses (November 3, 1647)
Massachusetts Bay Colony Cambridge Platform (1648)
New England Synod of Churches (September 30, 1648)
Maryland Toleration Act (April 21, 1649)
Massachusetts General Court (1649)
Connecticut General Court (1650)
Sir William Phips (February 2, 1651-February 18, 1695)
William Dampier (August 1651-March 1757)
Nahum Tate (1652-July 30, 1715)
Maryland Act Concerning Religion (October 20, 1654)
Petition to the New Amsterdam Council (1655)
Virginia House of Burgesses (December 1, 1656)
Remonstrance of Flushing (December 27, 1657)
Virginia House of Burgesses (March 13, 1660)
Virginia Governor William Berkeley (August 8, 1660)
Daniel Defoe (c.1660-April 24, 1731)
Virginia House of Burgesses (1662)
Virginia House of Burgesses (1663)
Virginia Governor William Berkeley (June 27, 1663)
Virginia House of Burgesses (September 1663)
Charter of Carolina (March 24, 1663)
Fundamental Constitutions of the Carolinas (1663)
Declaration of Carolina Proprietor (August 25, 1663)
Robert "King" Carter (1663-August 4, 1732)
Cotton Mather (February 12, 1663-February 13, 1728)
Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Charter (July 8, 1663)
New Jersey Concession of Lord's Proprietors (February 10, 1664)
Charter of Carolina (June 30, 1665)
Carolina Agreements of Lords Proprietors (1665)
John Harris (c.1666-September 7, 1719)
Virginia House of Burgesses (1668)
Charter of Carolina (March 1, 1669)
New Jersey Declaration (December 6, 1672)
Isaac Watts (July 17, 1674-November 25, 1748)
Grant to Sir George Carteret (July 29, 1674)
James Logan (October 20, 1674-October 31, 1751)
Thanksgiving Proclamation (June 20, 1676)
Fundamental Laws of West New Jersey (1676)
Sieur de Bienville (February 23, 1680-March 7, 1768)
New Hampshire Commission of John Cutt (1680)
Province of West New Jersey (November 25, 1681)
Charter of Pennsylvania (February 28, 1681)
Concessions to the Province of Pennsylvania (July 11, 1681)
Fundamental Constitutions of Pennsylvania (1682)
William Penn's Charter of Liberties of Pennsylvania (April 25, 1682)
Laws Agreed Upon in England (April 25, 1682)
Preface to Frame of Government (May 5, 1682)
The Great Law of Pennsylvania (December 7, 1682)
Frame of Government of Pennsylvania (February 2, 1683)
Second Assembly of Pennsylvania (March 10, 1683)
New York Charter of Liberties and Privileges (October 30, 1683)
Fundamental Constitutions of East New Jersey (1683)
George Frederick Handel (February 23, 1685-April 14, 1759)
Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685-July 28, 1750)
Virginia Governor Francis Howard (1686)
Commission of Sir Edmund Andros (April 7, 1688)
Alexander Pope (May 21, 1688-May 30, 1744)
Montesquieu (January 18, 1689-February 10, 1755)
Connecticut Colonial Legislature (1690)
Massachusetts Bay Charter (October 7, 1691)
Carolina Colonial Sabbath Law (1691)
College of William and Mary (1692)
Voltaire (November 21, 1694-May 30, 1778)
Frame of Government of Pennsylvania (November 1, 1696)
Seal of the Province of New Jersey (1697)
Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges (October 28, 1701)
Delaware Charter (October 28, 1701)
John Wesley (June 17, 1703-March 2, 1791)
Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703-March 22, 1758)
Maryland Act to Prevent Growth of Popery (September 30, 1704)
Francis Alison (1705-November 28, 1779)
Virginia House of Burgesses (1705)
Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706-April 17, 1790)
Henry Fielding (April 22, 1707-October 8, 1754)
Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707-January 10, 1778)
Charles Wesley (December 18, 1707-March 29, 1788)
New Jersey Surrender to Queen (April 17, 1709)
Samuel Johnson (September 18, 1709-December 13, 1784)
Jonathan Trumbull (October 12, 1710-August 17, 1785)
Virginia Governor Spotwood (1710)
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (September 6, 1711-October 7, 1787)
Jean Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712-July 2, 1778)
Emmerich de Vattel (1714-1767)
Jonathan Shipley (1714-December 6, 1788)
George Whitefield (December 16, 1714-September 30, 1770)
Robert Carter Nicholas (January 28, 1715-September 8, 1780)
Jonathan Mayhew (October 8, 1720-July 9, 1766)
Roger Sherman (April 19, 1721-July 23, 1793)
Samuel Adams (September 27, 1722-October 2, 1803)
Samuel Langdon (January 12, 1723-November 29, 1797)
John Witherspoon (February 5, 1723-November 15, 1794)
Adam Smith (June 16, 1723-July 17, 1790)
Sir William Blackstone (July 10, 1723-February 14, 1780)
William Livingston (November 1723-July 25, 1790)
Isaac Backus (January 9, 1724-November 20, 1806)
Immanuel Kant (April 22, 1724-February 12, 1804)
George Mason (December 11, 1725-October 7, 1792)
James Otis (February 5, 1725-May 23, 1783)
John Newton (July 24, 1725-December 21, 1807)
George Wythe (1726-June 8, 1806)
William Prescott (February 20, 1726-October 13, 1795)
James Bowdoin (August 7, 1726-November 6, 1790)
James Warren (September 28, 1726-November 28, 1808)
William Samuel Johnson (October 7, 1727-November 14, 1819)
Ezra Stiles (November 29, 1727-May 12, 1795)
Pennsylvania's Oath of Fidelity and Abjuration (1727)
Mercy Otis Warren (September 14, 1728-October 19, 1814)
James Cook (October 27, 1728-February 14, 1779)
Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729-July 9, 1797)
Charles Thomson (November 29, 1729-August 16, 1824)
Samuel West (March 3, 1730-September 24, 1807)
Richard Stockton (October 1, 1730-February 28, 1781)
William Cowper (November 15, 1731-April 25, 1800)
John Blair (October 1731-August 31, 1800)
Francis Marion (February 26, 1732-February 27, 1795)
Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732-June 19, 1794)
George Washington (February 22, 1732-December 14, 1799)
Franz Joseph Haydn (March 31, 1732-May 31, 1809)
Georgia Charter (June 9, 1732)
John Dickinson (November 8, 1732-February 14, 1808)
George Read (September 18, 1733-September 21, 1798)
Robert Aitken (1734-July 15, 1802)
Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734-September 26, 1820)
John Carroll (January 8, 1735-December 3, 1815)
John Adams (October 30, 1735-July 4, 1826)
Hugh Williamson (December 5, 1735-May 22, 1819)
Harvard's First Hebrew Grammar Book (1735))
Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736-June 6, 1799)
Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737-June 8, 1809)
Charles Carroll (September 19, 1737-November 14, 1832)
Ethan Allen (January 21, 1738-February 12, 1789)
Jacob Duche' (January 31, 1738-January 3, 1798)
Sir William Herschel (November 15, 1738-August 25, 1822)
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (December 14, 1739-August 7, 1817)
New Guide to the English Tongue (1740)
Jonathan French (January 30, 1740-1809)
Augustus Montague Toplady (November 4, 1740-August 11, 1778)
Elias Boudinot (May 2, 1740-October 24, 1821)
Nathaniel Freeman (March 28, 1741-September 20, 1827)
Samuel Chase (April 17, 1741-June 19, 1811)
Joseph Warren (June 11, 1741-June 17, 1775)
John Langdon (June 26, 1741-September 18, 1819)
Samuel Provoost (February 26, 1742-September 6, 1815)
Nathaniel Greene (August 7, 1742-June 19, 1786)
James Wilson (September 14, 1742-August 21, 1798)
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743-July 4, 1826)
Josiah Quincy (February 23, 1744-April 26, 1775)
Abigail Smith Adams (November 22, 1744-October 28, 1818)
Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1745-April 19, 1813)
Richard Bassett (April 2, 1745-September 15, 1815))
David Brearly (June 11, 1745-August 16, 1790)
John Jay (December 12, 1745-May 17, 1829)
William Paterson (December 24, 1745-September 9, 1806)
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (February 25, 1746-August 16, 1825)
John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (October 1, 1746-October 1, 1807)
Gunning Bedford (1747-March 30, 1812))
John Paul Jones (July 6, 1747-July 18, 1792)
Sir Alexander Fraser Tytler (October 15, 1747-January 5, 1813)
Luther Martin (February 9, 1748-July 8, 1826)
Bishop James Madison (August 27, 1749-March 6, 1812)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (August 28, 1749-March 22, 1832)
James Madison (March 16, 1751-June 28, 1836))
John Brooks (May 31, 1752-March 1, 1825)
Jacob Broom (October 17, 1752-April 25, 1810)
Gouverneur Morris (January 31, 1752-November 6, 1816)
Timothy Dwight (May 14, 1752-January 11, 1817)
Edmund Jennings Randolph (August 10, 1753-September 13, 1813)
James McHenry (November 16, 1753-May 3, 1816)
Amos Farnsworth (April 28, 1754-Oct 29, 1847)
John Leland (May 14, 1754-January 14, 1841)
Abraham Baldwin (November 22, 1754-March 4, 1807)
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755-July 11, 1804)
Rufus King (March 24, 1755-April 29, 1827)
Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755-September 22, 1776)
John Marshall (September 24, 1755-July 6, 1835)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756-December 5, 1791)
Virginia House of Burgesses (1756))
Marquis de Lafayette (September 6, 1757-May 20, 1834)
James McGready (c.1758-February 1817)
Georgia Act (January 11, 1758)
Fisher Ames (April 9, 1758-July 4, 1808)
James Monroe (April 28, 1758-July 4, 1831)
Horatio Nelson (September 29, 1758-October 21, 1805)
Noah Webster (October 16, 1758-May 28, 1843)
John Armstrong (November 25, 1758-April 1, 1843)
Zephaniah Swift (February 27, 1759-September 27, 1823)
William Kirby (September 19, 1759-July 4, 1850)
Holy Bible (during the period 1760-1805)
Jonathan Dayton (October 16, 1760-October 9, 1824)
Jedediah Morse (August 23, 1761-June 9, 1826)
James Kent (July 31, 1763-December 12, 1847)
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767-June 8, 1845)
John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767-February 23, 1848)
Elizabeth Ka'ahumanu (March 17, 1768-June 5, 1832)
Francois Rene' de Chateaubriand (September 4, 1768-July 4, 1848)
Boston Gazette (September 1768)
Napoleon Bonaparte, I (August 15, 1769-May 5, 1821)
William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770-April 23, 1850)
Ludwig Van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770-March 26, 1827)
Sydney Smith (June 3, 1771-February 22, 1845)
George Addison Baxter (July 22, 1771-Spring 1841)
Sir Walter Scott (August 15, 1771-September 21, 1832)
James Montgomery (November 4, 1771-April 30, 1854)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772-July 25, 1834)
William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773-April 4, 1841)
First Jewish Sermon Published in America (May 28, 1773)
Boston Tea Party (December 16, 1773)
Massachusetts Provincial Congress (1774)
Virginia Proclamation (May 24, 1774)
Fairfax Resolves (July 18, 1774)
Continental Congress (September 6, 1774)
Continental Congress (September 7, 1774)
Continental Congress (September 1774)
Continental Congress (October 14, 1774)
Massachusetts Provincial Congress (October 22, 1774)
Sir Charles Bell (November 1774-April 28, 1842)
Andre Marie Ampere (January 22, 1775-June 10, 1836)
Walter Savage Landor (January 30, 1775-September 17, 1864)
Massachusetts Provincial Congress (April 15, 1775)
Mecklenburg County Declaration of Independence (May 20, 1775)
Massachusetts Provincial Congress (May 31, 1775)
Continental Congress (June 12, 1775)
Georgia Provincial Congress (July 4, 1775)
Georgia Provincial Congress (July 5, 1775)
Continental Congress (July 6, 1775)
Georgia Provincial Congress (July 7, 1775)
Georgia Provincial Congress (July 7, 1775)
Daniel O'Connell (August 6, 1775-May 15, 1847)
Continental Congress (July 19, 1775)
Lyman Beecher (October 12, 1775-January 10, 1863)
New Hampshire Constitution (January 5, 1776)
South Carolina Constitution (March 26, 1776)
Virginia House of Burgesses (May 15, 1776) Resolution
Continental Congress (March 16, 1776)
Malden, Massachusetts, Instructions to Congress (May 27, 1776)
Virginia Constitution (June 29, 1776)
Continental Congress (July 1, 1776)
Continental Congress (July 2, 1776)
Continental Congress (July 3, 1776)
Continental Congress (July 4, 1776)
Continental Congress (July 8, 1776)
Continental Congress (July 9, 1776)
Pennsylvania Constitution (September 28, 1776)
Maryland Constitution (November 11, 1776)
Connecticut Constitution (1776)
New Jersey Constitution (1776)
North Carolina Constitution (1776)
Georgia Rules and Regulations (1776)
Henry Clay (April 12, 1777-June 29, 1852)
New York Constitution (April 20, 1777)
New York Jewish "Ketubah" Marriage Certificate (July 6, 1777)
Vermont Constitution (July 8, 1777)
Continental Congress (September 11, 1777)
Continental Congress (October 1, 1777)
Continental Congress (October 6, 1777)
Continental Congress (November 1, 1777)
Articles of Confederation (November 15, 1777)
South Carolina Constitution (March 19, 1778)
Council of New York (October 23, 1779)
Francis Scott Key (August 1, 1779-January 11, 1843)
Benjamin Silliman (August 8, 1779-November 24, 1864)
Joseph Story (September 18, 1779-September 10, 1845)
Virginia Proclamation (November 11, 1779)
Delaware Approved Articles of Confederation (1779)
Massachusetts Constitution (June 15, 1780)
Continental Congress (October 18, 1780)
John Bannister Gibson (November 8, 1780-May 3, 1853)
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(Thomas) Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856-February 3, 1924)