American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

South Carolina Constitution (1895) current: <INTRODUCTION. At a Convention of the People of the State of South Carolina begun and holden at Columbia on the Tenth day of September, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Ninety-five, and thence continued by divers adjournments to the Fourth day of December in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Ninety-five. (current) PREAMBLE. We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, grateful to God for our liberties, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the preservation and perpetuation of the same. ARTICLE I,...

Fulton John Sheen (May 8, 1895-December 9, 1979) was an American Catholic Bishop whose powerful communication style and pioneer use of the television helped shape the conscience of the nation during his lifetime. He was professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of America, 1927-50; bishop of Rochester, New York, 1966-69; and in 1952 won an Emmy for outstanding male personality on television. His works include: Peace of Soul, Lift Up Your Heart; Three to Get Married; Life is Worth Living; and The Life of Christ. Named as one of the ten most important Americans in 1953, Bishop Fulton J....

J. (John) Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895-May 2, 1972) was the American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 1924-1972. He graduated from George Washington University, 1916; earned a Masters Degree in Law, 1917; served as assistant to Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. He became famous for his dramatic campaigns to stop organized crime. J. Edgar Hoover explained: <The criminal is the product of spiritual starvation. Someone failed miserably to bring him to know God, love Him and serve Him.> 1895JH001 In writing the introduction to Edward L.R. Elson's book, America's Spiritual Recovery, 1954, J. Edgar Hoover expressed: <We can...

United States Supreme Court (1895) in the case of Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Co., 157, U.S. 429, 574, 596 (1895), declared income tax unconstitutional. he court consisted of Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller, Ill.; Justice David Josiah Brewer, Kan.; Justice Horace Gray, Mass.; Justice John M. Harlan, Ky.; Justice Henry B. Brown, Mich.; Justice Stephen J. Field, Ca.; Justice George Shiras, Jr., Pa.; Justice Howell E. Jackson, Tenn.; and Justice Edward D. White, La. Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller rendered the opinion: <The original expectation was that the power of direct taxation would be exercised only in extraordinary...

Jean Rostand (October 30, 1894-September 4, 1977) was a famous French biologist, being a member of the Academy of Sciences of the French Academy. In Age Nouveau, February 1959, p. 12, Jean Rostand wrote: <Transformism is a fairy tale for adults.> 1894JR001 -- American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement. 1894JR001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Jean Rostand, February 1959, Age Nouveau, p. 12.