American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Atomic Energy Commission (August 20, 1959) Dr. T.N. Tahmisian stated in The Fresno Bee: <Scientists who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are great con-men, and the story they are telling may be the greatest hoax ever. In explaining evolution we do not have one iota of fact.> 1959TT001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. 1959TT001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Dr. T.N. Tahmisian, August 20, 1959, of the Atomic Energy Commission, printed in The Fresno Bee.

Alaska (January 3, 1959) was the 49th State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of Alaska, adopted April 24, 1956, stated: <Preamble. We, the people of Alaska, grateful to God and to those who founded our nation and pioneered this great land, in order to secure and transmit to succeeding generations our heritage of political, civil and religious liberty within the Union of States, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the State of Alaska.> 1959AK001 <Article I, Section 4. Freedom of Religion. No law shall be made respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise...

Ohio State Motto (1959) stated: <With God All Things are Possible.> 1959OH001 On March 16, 2001, in a 9-4 decision, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that this motto was constitutional. This overturned a previous decision to prohibit the motto by a three-judge panel of the same court April 2000, which decision, as described by Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist: <...bristled with hostility toward religion.> 1959OH002 Matthew Peterson, a Presbyterian minister from Cleveland, sued the State of Ohio to remove the motto with the backing of the American Civil Liberties Union and the support of the Americans United for the...

New York Supreme Court (1958) in the case of Baer v. Kolmorgen, 181 N.Y S. 2d. 230, 237 (Sup. Ct. N. Y. 1958), Judge Gallagher stated: <Much has been written in recent years concerning Thomas Jefferson's reference in 1802 to "a wall of separation between church and State."...Jefferson's figure of speech has received so much attention that one would almost think at times that it is to be found somewhere in our Constitution.> 1958NY001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. 1958NY001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). New York Supreme...

J.C. Watts, Jr. (b.November 8, 1957) was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma and Chairman of the House Conference Committee. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma, 1981; played professional football, 1981-86; was a youth minister at the Sunnyland Baptist Church, Del City, 1987-94; member of the Oklahoma Corp. Commission 1990-94, chairman 1993-94; elected to the 104th Congress from the 4th district of Oklahoma, 1995; member of the National Drinking Water Adv. Council; member of the electricity commission; and member of the National Association Regulatory Utility Commissioners. On Tuesday, February 5, 1997, U.S. Representative J.C. Watts delivered the Republican response to President Clinton's...