American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

New Jersey State Court (1950) in the case of Doremus v. Board of Education of Borough of Hawthorne, 5 N.J. 435, 75 A. 880 (N.J. 1950), stated: <We consider that the Old Testament, because of its antiquity, its contents, and its wide acceptance, is not a sectarian book when read without comment. Cf. Vidal v. Girard's Executors. The adherents of those religions [Jew, Catholic, Protestant] constitute the great bulk of our population. There are [other] religious groups...but in this country they are numerically small and, in point of impact upon our national life, negligible....And it is not to say that because a...

United States Supreme Court (1948) in the case of McCollum v. Board of Education of School District Number 71, 333 U.S. 203, 236 (1948), Justice Felix Frankfurter rendered the Court's opinion: <Traditionally, organized education in the Western world was Church education. It could hardly be otherwise when the education of children was primarily study of the Word and the ways of God. Even in the Protestant countries, where there was a less close identification of Church and State, the basis of education was largely the Bible, and its chief purpose inculcation of piety.> 1948US001 Justice Robert Houghwout Jackson concurred: <I think...

Norma Leah McCorvey (September 22, 1947-February 18, 2017) was the "Jane Roe" in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. In 1995, Norma McCorvey, quit her job as a marketing director at the Dallas abortion clinic, A Choice for Women, converted to Christianity. She was baptized in a Garland, Texas, swimming pool on Tuesday, August 8, 1995, by Philip "Flip" Benham, president of the national pro-life organization Operation Rescue. On August 11, 1995, Norma McCorvey's story was covered in the USA Today by Jeannine Lee and Masud Khan, "'Roe' litigant's about-face: 'I'm pro-life.'" The Dallas Morning News carried...

Tom DeLay (b.April 8, 1947) was the U.S. Representative from the 22nd District of Texas from 1984 until 2006. He was Republican Party House Majority Leader from 2003 to 2005. In April 3, 2002, while serving as House Majority Whip, Tom DeLay stated in a speech at Westminster College, titled "The Bonds of Freedom": <President Lamkin, Mayor Craghead, Reverend Shepard, Mrs. Ward, Mr. Travis, members of the faculty, students of the college, ladies and gentlemen, it is a high privilege to receive this degree and I offer all of you my deep and profound gratitude for the honor. Thank you very...

James Danforth Quayle (b.February 4, 1947) was the Vice-President of the United States under President George Bush, 1989-93. He had served as a U.S. Representative from Indiana, 1977-81, and a U.S. Senator, 1981-89. Vice-President Dan Quayle stated: <So I think the time has come to renew our public commitment to our Judeo-Christian values-in our churches and synagogues, our civic organizations and our schools. We are, as our children recite each morning, "one nation under God." That's a useful framework for acknowledging a duty and an authority higher than our own pleasures and personal ambitions.> 1947DQ001 -- American Quotations by William J....