Today's American Minute
Salvation Army: William & Catherine Booth-"To keep quiet seemed like being a traitor to humanity"; & History of Goodwill Industries - American Minute with Bill Federer
Fighting sex-trafficking, William Booth wrote: "While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; -while little children go hungry, I'll fight; -while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight -while there is a drunkard left, -while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, -where there remains one dark soul without the light of God -- I'll fight! I'll fight to the very end!"
Daniel Boone: Frontiersman, Pioneer and Patriot - American Minute with Bill Federer
Daniel Boone: Frontiersman Pioneer & Patriot
Theodore Roosevelt continued: "Boone's creed in matters of morality and religion was as simple and straightforward as his own character ... Late in life he wrote to one of his kinsfolk (sister-in-law, Sarah Boone, October 17, 1816): 'The religion I have is to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.'"
How do Politicians become Corrupt? "The Love of Power and the Love of Money" warned Franklin - American Minute with Bill Federer
81-year-old Ben Franklin gave an address, titled "Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy": "Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence in the affairs of men ... ambition and avarice -- the love of power and the love of money ... When united ... they have ... the most violent effects. Place before the eyes of such men a post of honor, that shall, at the same time, be a place of profit, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it."
Politics: Create Problems to Seize Power; Scandals Ancient and Modern; Do Ends Justify Means? - American Minute with Bill Federer
Scandals Ancient & Modern: "Ends" do not justify "Means"! - American Minute with Bill Federer
The conviction that one's political agenda is so good that it justifies bending the laws to implement it has produced innumerable scandals throughout history.
Justice James Wilson: America has "the BEST form of government which has EVER been offered to the WORLD"- American Minute with Bill Federer
Justice James Wilson: America "the BEST form of government which has EVER been offered to the WORLD"
He added: "Under that Constitution there are 'citizens,' but no 'subjects.'" What Wilson was underscoring was that Kings have "subjects" who are subjected to the King's will. Republics have "citizens," who are effectively co-rulers, co-sovereigns, co-kings.