American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Unites States Congress (June 14, 1954) approved the Joint Resolution 243 (Public Law 83-396), which added the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. (The Pledge was initially adopted by the 79th Congress on December 28, 1945, as Public Law 287.): <Public Law 396; Chapter 297; Joint Resolution To amend the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 7 of the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution to codify and emphasize existing rules and customs pertaining to...

United States Congress (1954) approved in both the Senate and House of Representatives of the 83rd Congress, a joint resolution calling for the establishment of: <A room with facilities for prayer and meditation for the use of Members of the Senate and House of Representatives.> 1954US001 <This small room in the Capitol, just off the rotunda, is always open when Congress is in session. It is for the private prayer and meditation of members of Congress, and is not open to the public. An open Bible is upon an altar, and located above it is the focal point of the...

United States Congress (April 17, 1952) passed Public Law 82-324; 66 Stat. 64, to set aside an annual National Day of Prayer: <Joint Resolution to provide for setting aside an appropriate day as a National Day of Prayer. The U.S. Senate Report No. 1389, April 2, 1952, of the 82nd Congress, 2nd Session, Calendar No. 1324, ordered to be printed the report of Mr. McCarran, from the Committee on the Judiciary: The Committee on the Judiciary, to which was referred the resolution (H.J. Res. 382) directing the President to proclaim a suitable day each year, other than a Sunday, as a National...

United States Supreme Court (1952) in the case of Zorach v. Clauson, 343 US 306, 307, 313, 314 (1952), Justice William O. Douglas delivered the Court's decision, stating: <The First Amendment, however, does not say that in every respect there shall be a separation of Church and State. Rather, it studiously defines the manner, the specific ways, in which there shall be no concert or union or dependency one on the other. That is the common sense of the matter. Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other-hostile, suspicious, and even unfriendly.... Municipalities would not be permitted...

Rush Hudson Limbaugh, III (January 12, 1951-February 17, 2021) an American radio talk show and television host. His radio program reaches approximately 20 million listeners a week and his syndicated TV show covers nearly 99 % of America. He is the author of The Way Things Ought to Be, 1992, and See, I Told You So, 1993, and the publisher of The Limbaugh Letter. Born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Rush Limbaugh ascended from being a Top-40 deejay, to a successful radio talk-show host at KFBK in Sacramento, California, to being heard in over 616 markets across the country. In regard to...