Warren E. Burger Quotes:
Ocupation: Former Chief Justice of the United States
Life: September 17, 1907 - June 25, 1995
Birthday: September 17
Death: June 25
The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that amendment... the practice of opening sessions with prayer has continued without interruption ever since that early session of Congress. It can hardly be thought that in the same week the members of the first Congress voted to appoint and pay a chaplain for each House and also voted to approve the draft of the First Amendment... (that) they intended to forbid what they had just declared acceptable.
topic: Prayer, Men, Views, Chaplains
