American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

J.C. (James Cash) Penney (September 16, 1875-February 12, 1971) was an American businessman, entrepreneur, and founder of the J.C. Penney chain of stores. In his autobiography, titled Fifty Years With the Golden Rule, J.C. Penney stated: <As to our country, my faith in our America, in its people and in the "American way of life" is unwavering. Its founding I believe to have been divinely ordained, and God has a mighty mission for it among the nations of the world. It was founded in prayer, in faith, and in the heroic spirit of sacrifice. Lives of comparative ease might have been...

Albert Schweitzer (January 14, 1875-September 4, 1965) was a physician, philosopher, musician and a medical missionary who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952. He practiced as a doctor in the hospital he founded in the jungle village of Lambarene, Gabon, west central Africa, and even used the $33,000 Nobel prize money to build a leper colony. He had won international acclaim for his writings and recitals of Johann Sebastian Bach's organ music. Albert Schweitzer's writings include: The Philosophy of Civilization; The Decay and Restoration of Civilization; Civilization and Ethics; Out of My Life and Thought; From My African Notebook; and...

Pennsylvania Constitution (1874): <We, the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, and humbly invoking His guidance, do ordain and establish this Constitution. Natural right of conscience and freedom of worship... SECTION 3. All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences; no man can of right be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain any Ministry against his consent; no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with...

Sir Winston Churchill (November 30, 1874-January 24, 1965) was the British statesman who led Great Britain through World War II. The son of Lord Randolph Churchill, he was a direct descendant of the 1st Duke of Marlborough. He served as a war correspondent when Cuban guerrillas fought the Spanish, 1895; transferred to Bombay, India, 1896; attempted to cover the Greco-Turkish War, 1897; witnessed fighting the Pashtun tribe in Pakistan, 1897; reported on British fighting in Egypt and the Sudan, 1898; and covered the South African Boer War,1899. Churchill joined Parliament in 1900. After holding several positions, he rejoined the army...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874-June 14, 1936) was a modern British poets and novelists. His fondness of paradox is seen in his great works: Heretics; Orthodoxy; Outline of Sanity; All Is Grist; and All I Survey. In English Men of Letters, Chesterton wrote very enlightening sketches about both Browning and Dickens. In What's Wrong with the World, 1910, Gilbert Keith Chesterton wrote: <The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.> 1874GC001 G.K. Chesterton wrote a poem titled "Lepanto" to commemorate one of the most important naval battles in history, the...