James Gordon Bennett

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    When the Revolutionaries ran short of gun wadding the Rev. James Caldwell ... broke open the church doors and seized an armful of Watts’ hymnbooks. The preacher threw them to the soldiers and shouted, “Give ‘em Watts, boys—give ‘em Watts!”
    —For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell.
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    You involved me in a public scandal. I protested. You said, “Do your worst” and that’s precisely what I did.
    —Charles Bennett (b.1899)