American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (March 22, 1930-June 8, 2023) is an internationally renowned broadcaster and founder of: The Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc., airing in over 70 countries; The 700 Club, reaching an average of one million households daily; International Family Entertainment, Inc., a publicly held company on the New York Stock Exchange, producing The Family Channel, a commercial cable television network reaching 95% of all cable households and 62% of all households in the U.S.; Regent University, offering master's and doctoral degrees, accredited by the Commission of Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, with an enrollment of nearly...

Dennis James Kennedy (November 3, 1930-September 5, 2007) Ph.D. A.B., M.Div., M.Th., D.D., D.Sac.Lit., Ph.D., Litt.D., D.Sac.Theol., D.Humane Let., was an author, lecturer and pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Florida. Dr. D. James Kennedy is one of the most listened-to Christian ministers in the world today. His forthright and rational presentation of the Gospel is heard via television, radio, and the Internet throughout America and the world. Dr. Kennedy, who entered the presence of his Savior, Jesus Christ, on September 5, 2007, began his Christian life in 1953 after he was startled awake one Sunday morning by a preacher's stern...

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was a prominent black American civil rights leader. In his address at Montgomery, Alabama, December 31, 1955, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared: <If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization."> 1929MK001 In 1958, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., answered a reader’s question in an advice column for Ebony Magazine: <Question: My problem is different...

Anne Frank (1929-late February 1945) was a Dutch Jewish diarist. She wrote a telling narrative of her life in Holland during the Nazi occupation before dying in a concentration camp. In The Diary of a Young Girl, dated March 7, 1944, Anne Frank wrote: <Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!> 1929AF001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. 1929AF001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Anne Frank, March 7, 1944, in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young...

Frank Borman (March 14, 1928-November 7, 2023) was the Commander of the Apollo VIII spacecraft, which was the first manned ship to orbit the moon. He served as a U.S. Air Force Officer; NASA director for space stations, 1969-70; vice-president of Eastern Airlines, 1970-75, president 1975-86. The first mission to fly around the moon was Apollo 8 in 1968. The tiniest mistake would send them crashing into the moon's surface or off into endless space. As they successfully went into lunar orbit, astronaut William Anders snapped the famous Earthrise photo that was printed in Life Magazine. As Apollo 8's three man...