American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

United States Congress (April 20, 1898) in a Joint Resolution, passed following a message from President McKinley, recognized the independence of Cuba and declared war with Spain: <Whereas the abhorrent conditions which have existed for more than three years in the Island of Cuba, so near our own borders, have shocked the moral sense of the people of the United States, have been a disgrace to Christian civilization, culminating, as they have, in the destruction of a United States battle ship, with two hundred and sixty-six of its officers and crew, while on a friendly visit in the harbor of Havana,...

Michigan State Court (1898) in the case of Pfeiffer v. Board of Education of City of Detroit, 118 Mich. 560, 77 N.W. 250 (Mich. 1898), stated: <It might be said that many of the students in our schools are not in position to avail themselves of the opportunity to study the dead languages. Is it therefore an unjust discrimination to provide for instruction in Latin and Greek for such pupils as are able to devote their time to those studies? Does it harm one who does not, for conscientious reasons, care to listen to readings from the Bible, that others...

Delaware Constitution (1897) current: <PREAMBLE. Through Divine goodness, all men have by nature the rights of worshipping and serving their Creator according to the dictates of their consciences, of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring and protecting reputation and property, and in general of obtaining objects suitable to their condition, without injury by one to another; and as these rights are essential to their welfare, for due exercise thereof, power is inherent in them; and therefore all just authority in the institutions of political society is derived from the people, and established with their consent, to advance their...

Utah (January 4, 1896) was the 45th State admitted to the Union. The Constitution of the State of Utah, adopted 1896, stated: <Preamble. Grateful to Almighty God for life and liberty, we...establish this Constitution.> 1896UT001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. 1896UT001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Utah, 1896, Constitution, Preamble. Charles E. Rice, The Supreme Court and Public Prayer (New York: Fordham University Press, 1964), p. 175; "Hearings, Prayers in Public Schools and Other Matters," Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate (87th Cong., 2nd Sess.), 1962, pp. 268 et...

Clarence E. Manion (July 7, 1896-July 28, 1979) was dean of the Notre Dame College of Law, 1941-52, and Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Notre Dame, 1925-52. Prior to the 1952 elections, Clarence Manion's book, Key To Peace (1951), sold over a million copies, giving insight into true American democracy: a respect for the dignity of every man. In Key to Peace, Manion warned of a loss of individual freedom, what the Declaration of Independence worded 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness', in favor of European socialist statist "class" or group "rights." Manion explained that though...