American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Antonin Scalia (March 11, 1936-February 13, 2016) is a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, nominated in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan. He graduated from Harvard, 1960, and began practicing with a Cleveland law firm. In 1967, he began teaching at the University of Virginia Law School. He served in both the Nixon and Ford administrations, being the Assistant Attorney General, 1971-77. He taught at the University of Chicago Law School, 1977-82; and was served as judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, 1982-86. On April 9, 1996, in an address that gained national attention, Antonin Scalia spoke...

James C. Dobson (April 21, 1936-August 21, 2025) is the founder and president of Focus on the Family, which produces a nationally syndicated radio program heard daily on over 5,300 radio facilities, in approximately 100 countries worldwide, by more than 200 million people. He served for 14 years as an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Southern California School of Medicine and for 17 years on the Attending Staff of Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. Dr. James Dobson's books include: Hide and Seek, Self-Esteem for the Child 1974; What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women, 1975; Preparing...

Charles M. Duke, Jr. (b.October 3, 1935) explored the rugged highlands of the moon's Descartes region with John Young during the Apollo 16 mission in April 1972. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in naval sciences from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1957 and a Master of Science in aeronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964. Following his graduation and commission from the Naval Academy, Duke entered the U.S. Air Force and received flying training at Spence Air Base, Georgia, and Webb Air Force Base, Texas. He completed advanced training in F-86L aircraft...

R. Paul Carlson (June 17, 1935-August 19, 2008) was history professor at Maine Township High School (East) in Park Ridge, Illinois, having taught in the township 50 years. He has a B.A. from Monmouth College, M.A. from Northwestern, M.E.D. from College of William and Mary, and L.H.D. from Ripon College. One of his students was a young conservative woman named Hillary Rodham, who later became liberal in college. Dr. R. Paul Carlson stated: <Those failing to understand the chess game of politics and history eventually become the pawns of others.> 1935PC001 A list of quotations from Dr. R. Paul Carlson's lectures...

New York State Court (1935) in the case of Lewis v. Board of Education of City of New York, 157 Misc. 520, 285 N.Y.S. 164 (Sup.Ct. 1935), aff'd per curiam, 247 App.Div. 106, 286, N.Y.S. 174 (App. Div 1936), stated: <The plaintiff alleged that the board of education illegally allowed the use of school buildings to a large number of distinctively sectarian religious denominations, societies and groups. Held- The manifest vice of the plaintiff's position is that he has confused the racial and religious affiliations of the users of the school buildings with the purpose for which the buildings are used. The...