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
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."
"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.'"