American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Carlos Peña Romulo (January 14, 1899-December 15, 1985) was a Philippine general, diplomat and journalist. He was renowned for his heroic activities during World War II. He was an aide-de-camp to U.S. General Douglas MacArthur on Corregidor Island and in Australia. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1941, and in 1948 he served as president of the United Nations Conference on Freedom of Information in Geneva. He was president of the U.N. General Assembly, 1949-50; Philippine ambassador to the United States, 1952; chairman of the U.N. Security Council, 1957; and was the president of the University of the Philippines. General...

Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield (1899-1972) was Postmaster General in President Eisenhower's cabinet, 1953-1961. He had been successful in the real-estate, oil distribution and auto-sales industries before becoming involved in the 1940 Presidential campaign.  In 1943, he was elected finance director of the State Central Committee of the Republican Party; in 1944, he became a member of the Republican National Committee, and in 1952, became the chairman of the Republican National Committee. On April 5, 1954, in announcing the first U.S. postage stamp to carry the inscription, "In God We Trust," Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield stated: <In sixteen years we have seen...

"C.S." Clive Staples Lewis (November 29, 1898-November 22, 1963) was an author, historian and professor at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He was educated by a private tutor as a child; studied at Malvern College in England; University College, Oxford, 1916; served in World War I, 1918; taught at Magdalen College, Oxford, 1925-54; and was professor of medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University, 1954-63. Though his death went almost unnoticed, having died on the same day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, his works have become some of the most widely read in English literature. His works include: The...

William Orville Douglas (October 16, 1898-January 19, 1980) was a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1939-75. He received his law degree from Columbia University, New York City, 1925; worked at a Wall Street law firm; was assistant professor of Columbia's law school, 1927; was professor at Yale's law school, 1928-39. In the 1952 case of Zorach v. Clauson, 343 US 306 307 313, Justice Douglas asserted: <The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every respect there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rather, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall...

George Stuart Benson (September 26, 1898-December 15, 1991) was the second President of Harding University, Searcy, Arkansas. He wrote in "The American Dream," paragraph 3: <The American dream is the latent fire that lies buried, awaiting a spark, in the breast of every American...the dream of achieving, the dream of contributing, the dream of fulfillment. It is all this, and much, much more-all of it comes from a bedrock foundation of spiritual understanding, faith in God, a dedication to God's laws.> 1898GB001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. 1898GB001....