American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Joseph Lister (April 5, 1827-February 10, 1912) was an English surgeon who pioneered "antiseptic surgery," by the application of chemical disinfectants. In 1865, he introduced the use of carbolic acid. He was the founder of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine in London. He also served as the President of the British Association and the Royal Society. Lord Joseph Lister, who was of Quaker background, stated: <I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.> 1827JL001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1827JL001. William J. Federer, American Quotations...

Stephen Bleecker Luce (March 25, 1827-July 28, 1917) served as U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, 1885, and U.S. Navy Commodore, 1881. During the Civil War, he commanded the monitor Nantucket; the frigate Wabash; the double-ender Sonoma; as well as the Canadaigua; and the Pontiac.  Stephen Bleecker Luce founded the U.S. Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island, considered the highest educational institution in the U.S. Navy. In 1884, as the first president of the college, Stephen Bleecker Luce stated: <Surely seamen are worthy to appear in your "Cloud of Witnesses." Not only did our Saviour consort with the seamen of Galilee, but...

Anna Bartlett Warner (August 31, 1827-January 22, 1915) in 1858 wrote The Love of Jesus: <Jesus loves me-this I know, For the Bible tells me so.> 1827AW001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1827AW001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Anna Bartlett Warner, 1858, in The Love of Jesus. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 599.

John Alexander Logan (February 9, 1826-December 26, 1886) was a Major-General during the Civil War. He served with General Grant at Vicksburg, Mississippi and with General Sherman on his march through Georgia to the sea. He was elected a U.S. Representative from Illinois, 1858; and a U.S. Senator, 1871-86. In 1884, he was a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination. On Decoration Day, 1886, in an oration at Riverside Park in New York, John Logan said: <But the beautiful ceremonies of love and remembrance, now so universally performed with flowers, came to the fullest expansion through the growth of the...

Thomas Henry Huxley (May 4, 1825-June 29, 1895) was an English naturalist. Though he strongly propounded the theory of evolution, he expressed: <The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it.> 1825TH001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1825TH001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Thomas Henry Huxley. Henry H. Halley, Halley's Bible Handbook (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1927, 1965), p. 18.