American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

George Hay Stuart (April 2, 1816-April 11, 1890) served as the president of the United States Christian Commission from 1861 to 1865, which was formed in New York, November 14, 1861, as an outgrouwth of the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association). He was a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners during President Grant's Administration. Through the efforts of women from various religious denominations, the United States Christian Commission raised millions of dollars in private donations, primarily from churches, during the Civil War. This was used to provide comforts, supplies, hospital stores and clothing to the armies and navies of the...

George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815-November 6, 1872) was a Major-General in the U.S. Army. He led the Union troops to victory at the Battle of Gettysburg, thus turning the tide of the Civil War. Colonel George Meade, the son of General Meade, reported the facts surrounding his father's last days in 1872: <Death came suddenly, with the sound of a foot-fall. There were a few days when friends waited on medical skill, but his heart was on the country whither he was going. He looked to the Saviour, who was the only one in Heaven or earth who could...

Henry Bowen Anthony (April 1, 1815-September 2, 1884) was a U.S. Senator. On January 9, 1872, he delivered a eulogy of Roger Williams in Congress: <He knew, for God, whose prophet he was, revealed it to him, that the great principles for which he contended, and for which he suffered, founded in the eternal fitness of things, would endure forever. He did not inquire if his name would survive a generation. In his vision of the future he saw mankind emancipated from...the blindness of bigotry, from the cruelties of intolerance. He saw the nations walking forth into the liberty wherewith Christ...

Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck (April 1, 1815-July 30, 1898) was a Prussian statesman. Serving under Emperor William I, he was largely responsible for uniting the German people. Known as the Iron Chancellor, he served as the Prussian foreign minister, 1862-71, and the first Chancellor of the new German Empire, 1871-90. Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck declared: <Would to God that, apart from what is known in the world, I had no other sins upon my soul, for which I only hope to be forgiven by trusting in the blood of Christ. I know not whence I should derive my...

John Armor Bingham (January 21, 1815-March 19, 1900) was a U.S. Representative, 1855-63, 1865-73. He served as the U.S. Minister to Japan, 1873-85. He was Judge Advocate at the trial of President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, and one of the managers of President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial. John Armor Bingham stated: <I was instructed in early youth by precept and example of my father and mother. I hereby became convinced of the truth of Christ's teaching, and of the inspiration of the Holy Scriptures. My convictions on this subject must suffice for me; I will not surrender them to any man....