American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. (October 15, 1917-February 28, 2007) one of America's most influential historians and cherished writers, Schlesinger was a former Harvard professor and special assistant to President Kennedy. Also the author or editor of twenty-two books, he examines the current American trends of racial polarization and ethnic violence in his latest, The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society. This recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes and two National Book Awards is currently working on the fourth volume of his highly regarded study of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. Born in Columbus, Ohio, on October 15,...

Charles Everett Koop, M.D. (October 14, 1916-February 25, 2013) was U.S. Surgeon General during President Ronald Reagan's Administration, 1982-89; surgeon-in-chief of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 1948-81; professor of pediatric surgery and pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; and served on the board of directors of MAP International, a relief agency to undeveloped countries. In 1977, Dr. C. Everett Koop delivered an address titled "The Slide to Auschwitz," to The American Academy of Pediatrics, upon receiving the William E. Ladd Medal, the highest honor given to pediatric surgeons in the country. In this address, published in The Human Life...

Wisconsin State Court (1916) in the case of State v. District Board of Joint School District Number 6, 162, Wis. 482, 156 N.W. 477 (Wis. 1916), stated: <The fact that certain persons desire to attend graduation exercises with their children, and that they say being compelled to enter a church of a different denomination from that to which they belong is violative of their assured rights of conscience, does not make it so.... The individual must decide for himself whether his conscience tells him that he must not frequent a certain place. If it does, he should punctiliously regard its behests...

Sir Lionel Alfred Luckhoo (March 2, 1914-December 12, 1997) was the ambassador of Barbados and Guyana, the only person to have been an ambassador for two sovereign nations simultaneously. He was knighted twice by the Queen of England, served as Lord Mayor of Georgetown, Guyana, and presided as Judge of the Supreme Court of Guyana. Sir Lionel Luckhoo held the distinction of being acknowledged in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most successful criminal attorney, with over 245 successive murder acquittals. Sir Lionel Luckhoo had spoken at the United Nations, to presidents, kings, parliaments, bar associations, cabinets,...

Delaware Statutes (1912): <Blasphemy is punishable as a misdemeanor. By statute any worldly employment, labor or business (works of necessity or charity excepted), peddling goods, droving, fishing, fowling, gaming, horseracing, cock fighting or hunting game, and playing and dancing, on the Sabbath day, are all prohibited and made punishable as misdemeanors. The usual form of oath is swearing upon the Holy Evangels of Almighty God. A person believing in any other than the Christian religion may be sworn according to the peculiar ceremonies of his religion, if there be any such. A person conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath may...