American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

George Bennard (1873-1958) wrote the hymn The Old Rugged Cross, 1913, which included: <I will cling to the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown.> 1873GB001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1873GB001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). George Bennard, 1913, in the hymn he composed titled, The Old Rugged Cross. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 738.

(Billings) Learned Hand (January 27, 1872-August 18, 1961) was an American jurist who served on the New York District Court, 1909-24, and the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 2nd District, 1924-51. He wrote The Spirit of Liberty, 1952, and The Bill of Rights, 1958. So well respected were his decisions, that they were even referenced in U.S. Supreme Court cases. Judge Learned Hand explained: <The use of history is to tell us what we are; for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our traditions pour into us. We must needs be sounding boards for past...

James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871-June 26, 1938) was a popular Black American poet. He was best known for writing a series of verse titled, God's Trombones, and editing the Book of Negro Spirituals. His autobiography, Along This Way, won the 1925 Springarn Medal for literature. James Weldon Johnson was a U.S. Consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua; a professor at Fisk University, 1930-38; and served as the secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In God's Trombones, 1927, Johnson wrote The Creation: <And God stepped out on space, And He looked around and said, "I'm lonely- I'll make...

American Medical Association (1871) recorded in the transactions of the American Medical Association, Philadelphia, Volume XXII, page 248: <God...at the moment of conception, creates a living soul.> 1871AM001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1871AM001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). American Medical Association, 1871, transactions of the American Medical Association, Philadelphia, Volume XXII, page 248. Compliments of George Johnson, Life Checks, Box 1177, Park Ridge, Illinois 60068.