American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

John Alexander Logan (February 9, 1826-December 26, 1886) was a Major-General during the Civil War. He served with General Grant at Vicksburg, Mississippi and with General Sherman on his march through Georgia to the sea. He was elected a U.S. Representative from Illinois, 1858; and a U.S. Senator, 1871-86. In 1884, he was a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination. On Decoration Day, 1886, in an oration at Riverside Park in New York, John Logan said: <But the beautiful ceremonies of love and remembrance, now so universally performed with flowers, came to the fullest expansion through the growth of the...

Thomas Henry Huxley (May 4, 1825-June 29, 1895) was an English naturalist. Though he strongly propounded the theory of evolution, he expressed: <The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it.> 1825TH001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1825TH001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Thomas Henry Huxley. Henry H. Halley, Halley's Bible Handbook (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1927, 1965), p. 18.

William Whiting (November 1, 1825-May 3, 1878) wrote The Hymn of the U.S. Navy in 1860, titled Eternal Father, Strong to Save, st. I: <Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm doth bind the restless wave, Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep Its own appointed limits keep, O, hear us when we cry to Thee For those in peril on the sea!> 1825WW001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. Endnotes: 1825WW001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). William Whiting, 1860, wrote The Hymn of the U.S. Navy, Eternal Father, Strong...

Samuel Sullivan Cox (September 30, 1824-September 10, 1889) was a U.S. Representative, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and popular speaker. In the work Memorial Addresses, published by the U.S. Congress, 1890, Samuel Sullivan Cox's address to Congress is recorded: <I believe in the religion which was taught and exemplified in the life of the Nazarene, and I never fail to bear testimony to the ennobling and purifying influence of the Christian religion.... There was a poignancy in my heart when I saw the old church, where I so often worshipped, razed to the ground. Was it not there I attended my first...

Sir William Thompson Kelvin (June 26, 1824-December 17, 1907) was a British physicist. He developed degrees Kelvin to record temperatures on an absolute scale. He held the chair of Natural Philosophy at the University of Glasgow for 54 years. He formulated the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics, introduced the Concept of Energy, and made enormous advancements in the areas of mathematics and physics. Among his great contributions were the invention of a ship's compass which was largely freed from the magnetic influence of the iron in the ship, as well as helping to design and lay the first trans-atlantic...