Today's American Minute

When Youth Were Patriots: 21-year-old Nathan Hale "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country!"- American Minute with Bill Federer

September 30, 2021 • When Youth Were Patriots: 21-year-old Nathan Hale "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country!"- American Minute with Bill Federer

The Essex Journal stated of Nathan Hale, February 13, 1777:

"At the gallows, he made a sensible and spirited speech; among other things, told them they were shedding the blood of the innocent, and that if he had ten thousand lives, he would lay them all down, if called to it, in defense of his injured, bleeding Country."

Daniel Boone: Frontiersman, Pioneer & Patriot - American Minute with Bill Federer

September 29, 2021 • Daniel Boone: Pioneer & Patriot - American Minute with Bill Federer

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.'

Chief Justice John Marshall "The American population is entirely Christian, and with us, Christianity and Religion are identified" - American Minute with Bill Federer

September 26, 2021 • and with us • Chief Justice John Marshall "The American population is entirely Christian • Christianity and Religion are identified" - American Minute with Bill Federer

Chief Justice John Marshall commented May 9, 1833, on the pamphlet The Relation of Christianity to Civil Government in the United States written by Rev. Jasper Adams, President of the College of Charleston, South Carolina:

"The American population is entirely Christian, and with us, Christianity and Religion are identified.

It would be strange, indeed, if with such a people, our institutions did not presuppose Christianity, and did not often refer to it, and exhibit relations with it.

Justice Joseph Story appointed to Supreme Court by James Madison-“Tyrants accomplish their purposes...by disarming the people" - American Minute with Bill Federer

September 25, 2021

His father was a Boston Tea Party "Indian." Joseph Story graduated second in his class from Harvard. He was a U.S. Representative, then was elected Massachusetts Speaker of the House. Read as PDF ... America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations At age 32, Joseph Story was the youngest Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, appointed by President James Madison. He served on the Supreme Court for 34 years. His appointment to the Supreme Court by Madison is significant, as Madison was instrumental in the writing the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Justice Joseph Story helped establish the illegality...

"Whatever strikes at the root of Christianity, tends manifestly to the dissolution of civil government"-Justice James Kent - American Minute with Bill Federer

September 24, 2021 • "Whatever strikes at the root of Christianity • tends manifestly to the dissolution of civil government"-Justice James Kent - American Minute with Bill Federer

Chief Justice James Kent wrote in People v. Ruggles, 1811:

"... We are a Christian people, and the morality of the country is deeply ingrafted upon Christianity, and not upon the doctrines or worship of those impostors ..."