American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Peter Marshall (May 27, 1902-January 25, 1949) was the Chaplain of the U.S. Senate, 1947-49. At the age of 25, Peter Marshall emigrated from Scotland, arriving at New York's Ellis Island in 1927. Members of his Sunday School class paid his way to seminary in Atlanta, where he graduated and was ordained in 1931. Rev. Peter Marshall pastored a small church in Covington, Georgia, then preached at Atlanta's Westminster Presbyterian Church. There he met Catherine Wood, a student at Agnes Scott College, and they married. Catherine Marshall's book on Peter's life, A Man Called Peter, was turned into a major...

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902-August 26, 1974) American aviator, of international fame for being the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The son of U.S. Congressman, Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., Charles attended the University of Wisconsin for three semesters, 1918-1920; studied aviation at Lincoln, Nebraska; made his first solo flight at Americus, Georgia, April 1923; and for a short time earned his living by barnstorming, performing daring exhibitions of aviation and giving passengers short rides. In March 1924, he became a flying cadet in the United States Air Service Reserve, having been trained at Brooks and...

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902-1985) was the chief United States delegate to the United Nations, 1953-1960; a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1937-1953, except for the years 1944-1946 when he resigned to serve in World War II; Republican Vice-Presidential nominee, 1960; ambassador to South Vietnam, 1963-1964, 1965-1967; ambassador to West Germany 1968-1969; Presidential emissary to the Vatican, 1970-1975. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., was the grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), the U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who vigorously opposed President Woodrow Wilson's plan for a League of Nations after World War I. He was also the great-great-grandson of George Cabot (1752-1823), the...

Carl Health Kopf (1902-1958) was an American clergyman. He once stated: <Whether God blesses America or not does not depend so much upon God as it does upon us Americans.> 1902CK001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. 1902CK001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Carl Health Kopf. Charles Wallis, ed., Our American Heritage (NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1970), p. 54.

Nebraska State Court (1902) in the case of Freeman v. Scheve, 91 N.W. 846 (Neb. 1902), Holcomb concurring, stated: <The Bible itself is not a sectarian book, and it is an erroneous conception to so regard it. Altogether aside from its theological aspects, the Bible has an historical and literary value surpassed by no secular writings. Its moral teachings and precepts are of the purest and highest, and appeal to the noblest impulses of mankind, as no other literary production ever has. Can anyone successfully contend, in light of the contemporaneous history of the times, that the constitutional framers and...