American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Margaret Hilda Thatcher (October 13, 1925-April 8, 2013) became the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1979; after succeeding Robert Heath as the Conservative leader, 1975. She had worked as a research chemist before becoming a barrister and entering Parliament in 1959. She had served as minister of pensions and national insurance, 1961; opposition spokesman on education, 1969; and secretary of state for education and science, 1970. In her administration as Prime Minister, she instituted cuts in government spending, and regained control of the Falkland Islands, 1982. On February 5, 1996, Margaret Thatcher stated: <We have to remember that...

(Mary) Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925-August 3, 1964) born in Savannah, Georgia, was an American author, whose published works include: Wise Blood, 1952; A Good Man is Hard to Find, 1955; The Violent Bear It Away, 1960; Everything That Rises Must Converge, 1965; and Mystery and Manners, 1969. Her work, Complete Stories, was awarded the National Book Award for fiction in 1972. Flannery O'Connor stated in a talk at Notre Dame University in the spring of 1957: <Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong...

United States Supreme Court (1925) in the case of Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 (1925), stated: <The fundamental theory upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the state to standardize its children.> 1925US001 <The child is not the mere creature of the state.> 1925US002 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. 1925US001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). United States Supreme Court, 1925, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 (1925). Reed v. van Hoven, 237 F.Supp. 48, 51 (W.D.Mich. 1965)....

William Hubbs Rehnquist (October 1, 1924-September 3, 2005) Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1986; was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1972-86; and U.S. Attorney General, 1969-72. He stated in his dissenting opinion in the case of Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38, 92, 99, 107 (1984): <It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history....The establishment clause had been expressly freighted with Jefferson's misleading metaphor for nearly forty years.... There is simply no historical foundation for the proposition that the framers intended to build a wall of separation [between church and...

William Penn (October 14, 1644-July 30, 1718) was the founder of Pennsylvania. He was the son of a British Navy Admiral, of the same name, who discovered Bermuda and helped strengthen King Charles II's throne. William Penn attended Oxford University, and later studied law. In 1667, at the age of 22, William Penn was impressed by a sermon delivered by Thomas Loe, titled, "The Sandy Foundation Shaken." He converted to the Christian beliefs of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, who at that time were scorned and ridiculed. In his Treatise on the Religion of the Quakers, William Penn proclaimed: <I...