American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874-October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States, 1929-33; Secretary of Commerce under both Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, 1921-28; served on the council of the American Relief Administration, 1919-21; U.S. Food Administrator during World War I, 1917-19; Commissioner for Belgian Relief, 1915-19; Chairman of the American Relief Committee in London, 1914-15; married Lou Henry, 1899; successful mining engineer, 1895-1914; graduated from Stanford University, 1895. On Monday, March 4, 1929, in his Inaugural Address, President Herbert Clark Hoover entreated: <This occasion is not alone the administration of the most sacred oath which...

(John) Calvin Coolidge (July 4, 1872-January 5, 1933) was the 30th President of the United States, 1923-29, during the era known as the "Roaring Twenties"; Vice-President under Warren G. Harding, 1920-23, assuming the Presidency upon Harding's death; Governor of Massachusetts, 1918-20, gaining popularity by refusing to allow the police to join unions and go on strike, which would jeopardize public security; Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1915-18, Massachusetts State Senator, 1911-15; Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts, 1910-11; Massachusetts State Representative, 1906-08; married Grace Anne Goodhue, 1905; Northampton City Solicitor, 1899-1901; Northampton City Councilman, 1899; admitted to bar, 1897; and graduated from Amherst...

Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865-August 2, 1923) was the 29th President of the United States, 1921-23, the sixth president to die in office; first president to speak on radio, 1920, at the Minnesota State Fair; U.S. Senator, 1915-21; Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, 1904-06; Ohio State Senator, 1900-04; married Florence De Wolfe Kling, 1891; editor of the Marion Star, Ohio, 1884-1920; and attended Ohio Central College, 1879-82. On Friday, March 4, 1921, in his Inaugural Address, President Warren G. Harding expressed: <Standing in this presence, mindful of the solemnity of this occasion, feeling the emotions which no one may know until...

William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857-March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States, 1909-13; Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1921-30; Kent Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale University, 1913-21; Joint Chairman of National War Labor Board, 1918; Secretary of War under President Theodore Roosevelt, 1904-08; appointed by President McKinley as Civil Governor of the Philippines, 1901-04; appointed by President McKinley as Commissioner of the Philippines, 1900-01; Dean of Cincinnati Law School, 1896; U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge for the Sixth Judicial Circuit, 1892-1900; appointed by President Harrison as U.S. Solicitor General, 1890-92; Ohio Superior...

Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858-January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States, 1901-09, the youngest man to hold the office. He had been Vice-President under William McKinley, 1900, assuming the Presidency after McKinley's assassination. He began construction of the Panama Canal, 1906; established the U.S. Forest Service, 1906, and called a national conservation conference, 1908; awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his arbitration in the Russo-Japanese War, 1905; Governor of New York, 1898-1900. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, known as the "Rough Riders," becoming the hero of the Battle of...