American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Bruce Fairchild Barton (August 5, 1886-July 5, 1967) was a U.S. Congressman and New York advertising executive. The son of Congregational Church pastor, Bruce Barton was born in Robbins, Tennessee, and grew up in Oak Park, Illinois. He was editor of his high school paper and was a reporter for a local newspaper. After graduating from Amherst College in 1907, he became editor of the Home Herald and Housekeeper. In 1912, he became assistant sales manager at P.F. Collier and Son in New York City, where his advertisements for the Harvard Classics series resulted in sales of 400,000 copies. In 1914,...

Will(iam James) and Ariel Durant (1885-1981) (1898-1981) were well-known American authors. Will first became famous with the publication of the Story of Philosophy, 1926. In 1932, he began publishing his eight volume work, Story of Civilization, which included Our Oriental Heritage; The Life of Greece; Caesar and Christ; The Age of Faith; and Rousseau and the Revolution, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968. Their other works include: Philosophy and The Social Problem; Adventures in Genius; and On The Meaning of Life. In Lessons of History (NY: Simon and Schuster, 1968), the Durants wrote: <The greatest question of...

United States Supreme Court (1885) in the case of Murphy v. Ramsey & Others, 144 U.S. 15, 45 (1885), gave its opinion: <Every person who has a husband or wife living...and marries another...is guilty of polygamy, and shall be punished....Certainly no legislation can be supposed more wholesome and necessary in the founding of a free, self- governing commonwealth...than that which seeks to establish it on the basis of the idea of the family, as consisting in and springing from the union for life of one man and one woman in the holy estate of matrimony; [Marriage is] the sure foundation of all...

Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884-December 19, 1968) was an author, reformer and U.S. socialist leader. On November 27, 1965, in an anti-war protest in Washington, D.C., he stated in a speech: <I'd rather see America save her soul than her face.> 1884NT001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1884NT001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Norman Mattoon Thomas, November 27, 1965, in a speech before an antiwar protest in Washington, D.C. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 787.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884-November 7, 1962) was the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She appointed by President Harry S. Truman as U.S. Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly, 1945-51; and reappointed in 1961-62. In her autobiographical book, This I Remember, Mrs. Roosevelt wrote of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's faith: <I always felt that my husband's religion had something to do with his confidence in himself. As I have said, it was a very simple religion. He believed in God and in His guidance. He felt that human beings were given tasks to perform and with those tasks...