American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Jeremiah Sullivan Black (January 10, 1810-August 19, 1883) was the U.S. Secretary of State, 1860-61, and U.S. Attorney General under President James Buchanan, 1857-60. He was the president of the Court of Common Pleas in Pennsylvania, 1842-51; State Supreme Court Justice, 1852- 57; and U.S. Supreme Court Reporter, 1861-64. He wrote in the North American Review, August of 1881: <As a matter of fact, Jesus Christ died that sinners might be reconciled to God, and in that sense He died for them; that is, to furnish them with the means of averting Divine justice, which their crimes had provoked. A...

Benjamin Franklin Morris (1810-1867) was an American historian. He wrote many insightful works, including: Memorial Record of the Nation's Tribute to Abraham Lincoln, 1865; The Life of Thomas Morris-Pioneer and Long a Legislator of Ohio, and U.S. Senator from 1833 to 1839, 1856; Historical Sketch of Rising Sun, Indiana, and the Presbyterian Church-A Fortieth Anniversary Discourse, delivered Sept. 15, 1856, 1858; and The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States-developed in the Official and Historical Annals of the Republic, in 1864, in which he expounded: <These fundamental objects of the Constitution are in perfect harmony...

William Ewart Gladstone (December 29, 1809-May 19, 1898) was an author and British Prime Minister four different times during Queen Victoria's reign. He asserted: <I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible. The Bible is stamped with a Specialty of Origin, and an immeasurable distance separates it from all competitors.> 1809WG001 <Most men at the head of great movements are Christian men. During the many years in the Cabinet I was brought in contact with some sixty master minds, and not more than perhaps three or four...

Christopher "Kit" Carson (December 24, 1809-May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, guide, Indian agent and soldier. He was a contemporary of the mountainmen explorers: Jedediah Smith (1798-1831), Jim Bridger (1804-1881) and Thomas Fitzpatrick (1799-1854); and his ventures west of the Mississippi were as famous as Daniel Boone's were to the east. Kit Carson was born in Kentucky, ninth of fourteen children, and moved to the Boone's Lick district of Missouri with his family when he was about a year and a half old. At the onset of his last illness, while bringing Indian Chiefs to meet American...

Sir Risdon Bennett (September 29, 1809-December 14, 1891) was the President of the Royal Society of Physicians. In 1890, Sir Risdon Bennett wrote in the Report of the Christian Evidence Society: <It has been truly said that "the real evidence of Christianity is in its power." And how can we look around the world and fail to see proof of this power wherever the Gospel is known, among all races of mankind, all classes of society, all ranks of intellect. What is there comparable to the religion of Jesus Christ in promoting the happiness and welfare of mankind? The full...