American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Josef Cardinal Mindszenty (March 29, 1892-May 6, 1975) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal, 1946; Archbishop of Esztergom, 1945; and ordained a priest, 1915. On November 12, 1956, commenting on his eight years of confinement by the Russian occupation troops in Hungary, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty stated: <I suffered torture bodily and in my soul. It's God's miracle that I am here and that I am as I am.> 1892JM001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. 1892JM001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, November 12, 1956, comment on...

Cesar Vallejo (March 16, 1892-April 15, 1938) in Poemas Humanos, 1939, Whatever May Be the Cause, wrote: <Whatever may be the cause I have to defend before God, beyond death I have a defender: God.> 1892CV001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. 1892CV001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Cesar Vallejo, 1939, in Poemas Humanos, Whatever May Be the Cause, translated by Clayton Eshleman. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 824.

United States Supreme Court (February 29, 1892) in the case of Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 U.S. 457 (12 S.Ct. 511, 36 L.Ed. 226) <RECTOR, ETC., OF HOLY TRINITY CHURCH v. UNITED STATES. Decided: February 29, 1892 opinion, BREWER Seaman Miller, for plaintiff in error. Asst. Atty. Gen. Maury, for the United States. Mr. Justice BREWER delivered the opinion of the court. Plaintiff in error is a corporation duly organized and incorporated as a religious society under the laws of the state of New York. E. Walpole Warren was, prior to September, 1887, an alien residing...

Wendell Lewis Willke (February 18, 1892-October 8, 1944) was a business executive, lawyer, and U.S. Presidential Candidate. He had been a Democrat most of his life till he became a Republican in the middle 1930's. After having served in World War I, he became a lawyer, and later the president of Southern Electric Utilities Company, 1933-40, selling properties to the Tennessee Valley Authority for $78,000,000. He opposed the New Deal regulations and control on businesses, and favored restructuring the tax system to encourage business expansion. In 1940, winning 22,000,000 votes, he almost defeated Franklin D. Roosevelt's bid for a third...

Martin Niemoeller (January 14, 1892-March 6, 1984) was a German submarine captain in World War I; studied theology at Munster; was a pastor at Dahlheim; formed the Pastor's Emergency League to protest the Nazi government; was arrested in 1937; and spent 7 years in concentration camps. He helped to rebuild the Evangelical church in Europe after World War II and served as the president of the World Council of Churches, 1961-68. As a citizen in Germany during the Nazi regime, Martin Niemoeller wrote: <In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a...