American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Illinois Supreme Court (1883) Richmond v. Moore, 107 Ill. 429, 1883 WL 10319 (Ill.), 47 Am. Rep. 445 (Ill. 1883): <Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise. In this sense and to this extent, our civilizations and our institutions are emphatically Christian.> 1883ISC001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1883ISC001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Illinois Supreme Court (1883) Richmond v. Moore, 107 Ill. 429, 1883 WL 10319...

Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883-April 10, 1931) was a Syrian-born American painter and poet, noted for his mystic perspective on life. In his 1923 work, The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran wrote On Prayer: <You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.> 1883KG001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1883KG001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Kahlil Gibran, 1923, in The Prophet; On Prayer. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown...

Charles Milton Stine (1882-1954) was the director of Research for the E.I. Dupont Company. An organic chemist, he was a leader in the development of significant new products and patents, most of which were connected with propellant powder, high explosives, dyes, artificial leather, and paints. In the book he authored, titled, A Chemist and His Bible, Charles Stine stated: <The world about us, far more intricate than any watch, filled with checks and balances of a hundred varieties, marvelous beyond even the imagination of the most skilled scientific investigator, this beautiful and intricate creation, bears the signature of its Creator, graven...

Sam Rayburn (January 6, 1882-November 16, 1961) was a U.S. Representative from Texas, 1912, reelected 24 times, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1940-1947; 1949-1953; 1955-1961. On March 20, 1955, upon the opening of a prayer and meditation room in the U.S. Capitol Building, Representative Sam Rayburn commented: <I do trust that there will not be a show made of this thing....Members in this room want to be alone with their God.> 1882SR001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1882SR001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Sam Rayburn, March...

William Temple (October 15, 1881-October 26, 1944) was the 98th Archbishop of Canterbury, 1942-44; Archbishop of York, 1929-42, and the bishop of Manchester, 1921-29. Active in social and economic matters, William Temple wrote in The Malvern Manifesto: <There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth, since all systems can be perverted by the selfishness of man.> 1881WT001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1881WT001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). William Temple, in The Malvern Manifesto. John...