American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

United States Supreme Court (1963) in the case of School District of Abington Township v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203, 212, 225 (1963), pp. 21, 71; Associate Justice Tom Clark delivered the Court's opinion; Justice William Joseph Brennan, Jr., concurring: <It is true that religion has been closely identified with our history and government. As we said in Engle v. Vitale, "The history of man is inseparable from the history of religion." Secularism is unconstitutional....preferring those who do not believe over those who do believe....It is the duty of government to deter no-belief religions.... Facilities of government cannot offend religious principles.... [T]he State...

Abington Township School District, Pennsylvania (prior to 1963) endorsed the public school policy stating: <Each school...shall be opened by the reading, without comment, of a chapter in the Holy Bible....Participation in the opening exercises...is voluntary. The student reading the verses from the Bible may select the passages and read from any version he chooses....There are no prefatory statements, no questions asked or solicited, no comments or explanations made and no interpretations given at or during the exercises. The students and parents are advised that the student may absent himself from the classroom or, should he elect to remain, not participate in the...

United States Supreme Court (1962) in the case of Engle v. Vitale; as quoted in Stone v. Graham, 449 U.S. 39, 46 (1980) and Abington v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203, 212 (1963), stated: <The history of man is inseparable from the history of religion.> 1962US001 In his dissenting opinion in the case of Engle v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, 445-446 (1962), Justice Potter Stewart stated: <I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical invocation of metaphors like the "wall of separation," a phrase nowhere to be found in...

Hawaii State Motto (August 21, 1959) stated: <Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono (The Life of the Land is perpetuated in Righteousness.)> 1959HI002 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement 1959HI002. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Hawaii State Motto, August 21, 1959. Charles Wallis, ed., Our American Heritage (NY: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1970), p. 30. December 30, 1993, the State of Hawaii issued an Executive Proclamation declaring February 12-22, 1994, as "Christian Heritage Week," signed by Governor John Waihee, in the Capitol City of...

Hawaii (August 21, 1959) was the 50th State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of Hawaii, adopted 1959, stated: <Preamble. We, the people of Hawaii, Grateful for Divine Guidance...establish this Constitution.> 1959HI001 Hawaii became a U.S. Territory JULY 7, 1898, as President McKinley signed the Treaty of Annexation. In 1778, British Captain James Cook discovered the islands, and in 1779, he was killed there. The Hawaiian Islands were united by King Kamehameha I in 1810. In 1819, King Kamehameha I died. His wife, Ka'ahumanu, and his son, Liholiho (King Kamehameha II), abolished the pagan religion with its kapu...