American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

(Billings) Learned Hand (January 27, 1872-August 18, 1961) was an American jurist who served on the New York District Court, 1909-24, and the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 2nd District, 1924-51. He wrote The Spirit of Liberty, 1952, and The Bill of Rights, 1958. So well respected were his decisions, that they were even referenced in U.S. Supreme Court cases. Judge Learned Hand explained: <The use of history is to tell us what we are; for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our traditions pour into us. We must needs be sounding boards for past...

James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871-June 26, 1938) was a popular Black American poet. He was best known for writing a series of verse titled, God's Trombones, and editing the Book of Negro Spirituals. His autobiography, Along This Way, won the 1925 Springarn Medal for literature. James Weldon Johnson was a U.S. Consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua; a professor at Fisk University, 1930-38; and served as the secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In God's Trombones, 1927, Johnson wrote The Creation: <And God stepped out on space, And He looked around and said, "I'm lonely- I'll make...

American Medical Association (1871) recorded in the transactions of the American Medical Association, Philadelphia, Volume XXII, page 248: <God...at the moment of conception, creates a living soul.> 1871AM001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1871AM001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). American Medical Association, 1871, transactions of the American Medical Association, Philadelphia, Volume XXII, page 248. Compliments of George Johnson, Life Checks, Box 1177, Park Ridge, Illinois 60068.

North Carolina Constitution (1868): <"The following persons shall be disqualified for office: First, any person who shall deny the being of Almighty God..."> 1868NC001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1868NC001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). North Carolina Constitution, 1868.

Robert Falcon Scott (June 6, 1868-March 29, 1912) was an English explorer. He led an expedition to the Antarctic, and on January 18, 1912, reached the South Pole. Caught in a snowstorm on their return trip, both he and the four other men in his expedition died. He kept a journal up to the day of his death; his final entry on Thursday, March 29, 1912, stated: <For God's sake look after our people.> 1868RS001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1868RS001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Robert...