American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

David Ben-Gurion (October 16, 1886-December 1, 1973) was an Israeli statesman; organized the Jewish Legion of American, British and Palestinian Jews, which fought against the Turks in the Holy Land; became founder of the National Council of Palestinian Jews; became a member of the executive body of the Jewish Agency, 1933; became chairman of the Agency, 1935; pleaded the cause of an independent Jewish state before the United Nations, 1947; became prime minister and minister of defense of the provisional government of the new republic of Israel, May 15, 1948; was appointed prime minister in the first cabinet of the...

Hugo La Fayette Black (February 27, 1886-September 25, 1971) was an Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1937-71, appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt; and a U.S. Senator from Alabama, 1927-37. He wrote in a 1962 decision: <Indeed, as late as the time of the Revolutionary War, there were established churches in at least eight of the thirteen former colonies and established religions in at least four of the other five.> 1886HB001 In Everson v. Board of Education, 1947, Justice Hugo La Fayette Black commented: <This court has previously recognized that the provisions of the First Amendment, in the drafting and adoption...

Bruce Fairchild Barton (August 5, 1886-July 5, 1967) was a U.S. Congressman and New York advertising executive. The son of Congregational Church pastor, Bruce Barton was born in Robbins, Tennessee, and grew up in Oak Park, Illinois. He was editor of his high school paper and was a reporter for a local newspaper. After graduating from Amherst College in 1907, he became editor of the Home Herald and Housekeeper. In 1912, he became assistant sales manager at P.F. Collier and Son in New York City, where his advertisements for the Harvard Classics series resulted in sales of 400,000 copies. In 1914,...

Will(iam James) and Ariel Durant (1885-1981) (1898-1981) were well-known American authors. Will first became famous with the publication of the Story of Philosophy, 1926. In 1932, he began publishing his eight volume work, Story of Civilization, which included Our Oriental Heritage; The Life of Greece; Caesar and Christ; The Age of Faith; and Rousseau and the Revolution, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968. Their other works include: Philosophy and The Social Problem; Adventures in Genius; and On The Meaning of Life. In Lessons of History (NY: Simon and Schuster, 1968), the Durants wrote: <The greatest question of...

United States Supreme Court (1885) in the case of Murphy v. Ramsey & Others, 144 U.S. 15, 45 (1885), gave its opinion: <Every person who has a husband or wife living...and marries another...is guilty of polygamy, and shall be punished....Certainly no legislation can be supposed more wholesome and necessary in the founding of a free, self- governing commonwealth...than that which seeks to establish it on the basis of the idea of the family, as consisting in and springing from the union for life of one man and one woman in the holy estate of matrimony; [Marriage is] the sure foundation of all...