Today's American Minute
"Whatever strikes at the root of Christianity, tends manifestly to the dissolution of civil government"-Justice James Kent - American Minute with Bill Federer
"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 ..."
Justice Joseph Story appointed to Supreme Court by James Madison-“Tyrants accomplish their purposes...by disarming the people" - American Minute with Bill Federer
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."