American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

William Ewart Gladstone (December 29, 1809-May 19, 1898) was an author and British Prime Minister four different times during Queen Victoria's reign. He asserted: <I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible. The Bible is stamped with a Specialty of Origin, and an immeasurable distance separates it from all competitors.> 1809WG001 <Most men at the head of great movements are Christian men. During the many years in the Cabinet I was brought in contact with some sixty master minds, and not more than perhaps three or four...

Christopher "Kit" Carson (December 24, 1809-May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, guide, Indian agent and soldier. He was a contemporary of the mountainmen explorers: Jedediah Smith (1798-1831), Jim Bridger (1804-1881) and Thomas Fitzpatrick (1799-1854); and his ventures west of the Mississippi were as famous as Daniel Boone's were to the east. Kit Carson was born in Kentucky, ninth of fourteen children, and moved to the Boone's Lick district of Missouri with his family when he was about a year and a half old. At the onset of his last illness, while bringing Indian Chiefs to meet American...

Sir Risdon Bennett (September 29, 1809-December 14, 1891) was the President of the Royal Society of Physicians. In 1890, Sir Risdon Bennett wrote in the Report of the Christian Evidence Society: <It has been truly said that "the real evidence of Christianity is in its power." And how can we look around the world and fail to see proof of this power wherever the Gospel is known, among all races of mankind, all classes of society, all ranks of intellect. What is there comparable to the religion of Jesus Christ in promoting the happiness and welfare of mankind? The full...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (August 6, 1809-October 6, 1892) 1st Baron Tennyson, was accorded the royal honor of being named an English poet-laureate. He authored the poem Charge of the Light Brigade, memorializing the courage of the British Cavalry as they charged to their death against the Russian guns at the Battle of Balaklava, October 25, 1854. He wrote Idylls of the King, 1859-85, which described the legends of King Arthur's Court, the Knights of the Round Table, Queen Guinevere, Sir Lancelot, Sir Galahad and the search for the Holy Grail. Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote: <Bible reading is an education in...

Charles Paschal Telesphor Chiniquy (July 30, 1809-January 16, 1899) was ordained a priest in Canada, 1833. He became known as the "Apostle of Temperance of Canada." In 1851, he brought 7,500 French Canadians into Illinois to found the French Colony of St. Anne. The church he built, at 334 South St. Louis Avenue, in St. Anne, Illinois, still stands. Late in life he was befriended by Abraham Lincoln. In 1859, he returned to Canada and began traveling and ministering in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. A prolific writer, he relayed his experience after studying the Scriptures: <It seemed that God was...