American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809-April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, 1861-65, responsible for preserving the Union through the Civil War; supported the 13th Amendment prohibiting slavery, ratified 1865; appointed Ulysses S. Grant as Commander in Chief of the Union forces, 1864; delivered the Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863; issued the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863; U.S. Senate candidate of the newly formed Republican Party, 1858, gaining national attention through his debates against pro-choice incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas; U.S. Representative, 1847-49, having defeated the Methodist Circuit rider, Peter Cartwright; member of the Illinois State Legislature, 1834-42; married Mary...

Edgar Allen Poe (January 19, 1809-October 7, 1849) was an American poet, literary critic and story writer. His best known works include: The Fall of the House of Usher, 1840; The Raven, 1845; and the short stories: The Cask of Amontillado; The Purloined Letter; The Masque of the Red Death; and The Pit and the Pendulum. In Tamerlane, 1827, Edgar Allen Poe wrote: <O, human love! thou spirit given, On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven.> 1809EP001 Edgar Allen Poe stated: <Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their...

Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808-July 31, 1875) was the 17th President of the United States, 1865-69; Vice-President under Abraham Lincoln, assuming the Presidency upon Lincoln's assassination; continued Lincoln's plan of Reconstruction for the South, pardoned those who had seceded, granted voting rights for all Blacks; acquitted of impeachment accusations, 1868; U.S. Senator, 1874-75; Military Governor of Tennessee, 1862-65; U.S. Senator, 1857-62; Governor of Tennessee, 1853-57; U.S. Representative, 1843-53; Tennessee State Senator, 1841-43; Tennessee State Representative, 1839-41, 1835-37; Mayor of Greenville, 1830-33; Alderman, 1828-30; married Eliza McCardle, 1827; and opened a tailor shop in Greenville, Tennessee, 1826. In an address upon...

Samuel Francis Smith (October 21, 1808-November 16, 1895) was an American poet and clergyman. In 1832, he wrote the patriotic hymn, My Country 'Tis Of Thee. He graduated from Harvard University in the same class as the poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, and continued through seminary, becoming a Baptist minister and professor of modern languages at Waterville College. He edited The Christian Review and devoted much time to helping the American Baptist Missionary Union. As a 23 year old seminary student, Samuel was inspired after hearing the national anthems for England, Sweden and Russia, and within a half hour wrote: <My...

William Strong (May 6, 1808-August 19, 1895) was an Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1870-80. He had previously served his country as a U.S. Representative, 1847-51, and as a justice on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1857-68. He was president of the American Sunday School Union, 1883-95, and president of the American Tract Society, 1873-95. Justice William Strong stated: <You ask me what I think of Christ? He is the Chiefest among ten thousand, and altogether lovely-my Lord, my Saviour, and my God. What do I think of the Bible? It is the infallible Word of God, a light...