American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Conrad Nicholson Hilton (December 25, 1887-January 3, 1979) was founder of the Hilton Hotel chain. After having served in World War I, he was involved in the banking business, and his father's mercantile concerns. In 1919, he purchased his first hotel in Cisco, Texas, which began his world- impacting career. On May 7, 1952, Conrad Hilton gave an address, titled, A Battle for Peace: <OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN: WE PRAY that YOU save us from ourselves. The world that YOU have made for us, to live in peace, we have made into an armed camp. We live in fear of war...

Rupert Brooke (August 3, 1887-April 23, 1915) was an English poet known for writing verse with vivid beauty. A graduate of Cambridge University, he traveled in Germany, America, the South Seas and the Aegean Sea, before dying in World War I. His works include: Collect Poems; Lithuania-A Drama in One Act; 1914 and The Great Lover. In his poem Peace, Rupert Brooke wrote: <Now, God be thanked, Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping.> 1887RB001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement....

Alfred Joyce Kilmer (December 6, 1886-July 30, 1918) was an American poet and journalist, whose famous poem, Trees, was first published in the Poetry magazine, 1913. He was educated at Rutgers College and Columbia University, and worked for the New York Times. His works include: Summer of Love, 1911; The Circus and Other Essays, 1916; Main Street and Other Poems, 1917; and Literature in the Making, 1917. He was killed in World War I by a German machine-gun nest along the Ourcq River in France. In 1913, in his most well-known poem, titled "Trees," Joyce Kilmer wrote: <I think that I...

David Ben-Gurion (October 16, 1886-December 1, 1973) was an Israeli statesman; organized the Jewish Legion of American, British and Palestinian Jews, which fought against the Turks in the Holy Land; became founder of the National Council of Palestinian Jews; became a member of the executive body of the Jewish Agency, 1933; became chairman of the Agency, 1935; pleaded the cause of an independent Jewish state before the United Nations, 1947; became prime minister and minister of defense of the provisional government of the new republic of Israel, May 15, 1948; was appointed prime minister in the first cabinet of the...

Hugo La Fayette Black (February 27, 1886-September 25, 1971) was an Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1937-71, appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt; and a U.S. Senator from Alabama, 1927-37. He wrote in a 1962 decision: <Indeed, as late as the time of the Revolutionary War, there were established churches in at least eight of the thirteen former colonies and established religions in at least four of the other five.> 1886HB001 In Everson v. Board of Education, 1947, Justice Hugo La Fayette Black commented: <This court has previously recognized that the provisions of the First Amendment, in the drafting and adoption...