American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Omar Nelson Bradley (February 12, 1893-April 8, 1981) was U.S. Military General. During World War II, he commanded the Second Army Corps in North Africa throughout the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns. He was the senior commander on the U.S. Ground Forces, 1944-45, for the invasion of France. In August of 1944, he led the 12th Army Group in France and Germany, consisting of 1,000,000 men in four armies. He was Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, 1948-49; made a five star general of the Army, 1950; and was the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1949-53. Born...

Jeremiah Andrew Denton, Jr. (b.July 15 1924) born in Mobile, Alabama, is a retired United States Navy Rear Admiral, Naval Aviator and a former U.S. senator, of the Republican party, for the state of Alabama. He spent almost eight years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and later wrote a book about his experiences. Denton was the first Roman Catholic to represent Alabama in the U.S. Senate. Denton attended McGill Institute and Spring Hill College and graduated from the United States Naval Academy, class of 1947. His 34-year naval career included service on a variety of ships, in many...

Reinhold Niebuhr (June 21, 1892-June 1, 1971) was an internationally known lecturer, writer and teacher. He graduated from Yale Divinity School; was professor at Union Theological Seminary New York City, 1930-60; dean of faculty, 1950-55; vice-president, 1955-60. He gained a reputation for being concerned with the needs of the poor, and in 1964 received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His works include: Faith and History; The Irony of American History; Christian Realism and Political Problems; The Self and the Dramas of History; Man's Nature and His Communities; and Faith and Politics. In 1934, Reinhold Niebuhr wrote The Serenity Prayer: <God,...

Josef Cardinal Mindszenty (March 29, 1892-May 6, 1975) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal, 1946; Archbishop of Esztergom, 1945; and ordained a priest, 1915. On November 12, 1956, commenting on his eight years of confinement by the Russian occupation troops in Hungary, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty stated: <I suffered torture bodily and in my soul. It's God's miracle that I am here and that I am as I am.> 1892JM001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. 1892JM001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, November 12, 1956, comment on...

Cesar Vallejo (March 16, 1892-April 15, 1938) in Poemas Humanos, 1939, Whatever May Be the Cause, wrote: <Whatever may be the cause I have to defend before God, beyond death I have a defender: God.> 1892CV001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. 1892CV001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Cesar Vallejo, 1939, in Poemas Humanos, Whatever May Be the Cause, translated by Clayton Eshleman. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 824.