American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

William Ashley "Billy" Sunday (November 19, 1862-November 6, 1935) was an American evangelist, noted for flamboyance and dramatic style. He was a famed professional baseball player, 1883-91, before his conversion. After working with the Y.M.C.A. from 1891-95, he became a nationally renowned evangelist, 1896-1935. Billy Sunday declared: <Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.> 1862BS001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1862BS001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). William Ashley "Billy" Sunday. Tryon Edwards, D.D., The New...

Arthur Christopher Benson (April 24, 1862-June 17, 1925) was an English author and educator, whose works include: The Upton Letters; From a College Window; and Walter Pater. In 1902, he wrote Land of Hope and Glory: <Land of hope and glory, mother of the free, How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.> 1862AB001 1862AB001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Arthur Christopher Benson, 1902, in his work titled, Land of Hope and Glory. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little,...

Georgia Constitution (1861): <ARTICLE 1, SECTION 2: God has ordained that men shall live under government; but as the forms and administration of civil government are in human, and therefore, fallible hands, they may be altered, or modified whenever the safety or happiness of the governed requires it. No government should be changed for light or transient causes; nor unless upon reasonable assurance that a better will be established. ARTICLE 1, SECTION 7: No religious test shall be required for the tenure of any office, and no religion shall be established by law, and no citizen shall be deprived of any...

New York Supreme Court (1861) Lindenmuller v. The People, 33 Barbour Reports, 548, 561: <The decision of the New York Supreme Court, written by Justice William F. Allen, was adopted by the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1877 and cited by Supreme Court Justice David Josiah Brewer in his 1905 lecture, "The United States a Christian Nation".) The plaintiff wanted to restrain New York City police from interfering with theatrical performances on Sunday, claiming that "the Bible, and religion with all its ordinances, including the Sabbath, are as effectually abolished by the Constitution as they were in France during the...

William Bliss Carman (April 15, 1861-June 8, 1929) was a preeminent lyric poet of Canada. A distant relative of Ralph Waldo Emerson, he became well-known as a magazine writer. He was the editor of the New York Independent, editor of the Oxford Book of American Verse, 1927; and contributed verse to the Harvard Monthly. His first volume, Low Tide on Grand Pre, published in 1893, followed by the books of verse: Songs of Vagabondia, 1894-6, 1901; A Winter Holiday; Pipes of Pan; and Ballads of Lost Haven. In his work, Vestigia, William Bliss Carman wrote: <I took a day to search...