Billy Sunday Quotes


I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.


Citations

Ellis, William T. “Billy” Sunday, the Man and His Message. John C. Winston Company, 1914, p. 114.

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This is one of the first literary works explicitly attacking Fascism at the start of WWII. The quotation is a line of the protagonist. The play opened in New York and shortly after President Roosevelt ordered a command performance at the National Theater in Washington. A Movie with Bette Davis and Paul Lukas was then made of the play. Many films and plays with anti-Fascist, anti-Nazi themes followed.


Billy Sunday
Billy Sunday
  • Born: November 19, 1862
  • Died: November 6, 1935
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Baseball Player, Christian Evangelist

William Ashley Sunday was an American outfielder in baseball's National League and widely considered the most influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century.