Today's American Minute

Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick, 1851, & how a Hawaiian Missionary saved an American sailor from being eaten by cannibals - American Minute with Bill Federer

August 01, 2023 • & how a Hawaiian Missionary saved an American sailor from being eaten by cannibal • 1851 • Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick

Ahab finally caught up with the whate, Moby Dick, in the Pacific Ocean. As fate would have it, when the harpoon struck Moby Dick, the rope flew out so fast it snagged Ahab, pulling him out of the boat.

James Garfield "If Congress is corrupt, it is because the people tolerate corruption" - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 30, 2023 • it is because the people tolerate corruption" • James Garfield "If Congress is corrupt

As a Congressman, James Garfield had stated at the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1876: "Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

First Bibles printed in America, One even Authorized by Congress: "Bible teaching ... is ploughed into the very heart of the race"-FDR - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 29, 2023 • "We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a Nation • without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic ..." Franklin D. Roosevelt

President Franklin D. Roosevelt stated October 6, 1935: "We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a Nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic ..."

"DUTY is ours; results are God's" - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 29, 2023 • "DUTY is ours; results are God's"

President Lincoln challenged February 27, 1860:

"Neither let us be slandered from our DUTY by false accusations against us ... Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our DUTY."

Pearl Harbor Attacked "DECEMBER 7, 1941, -- a date which will live in infamy!" - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 29, 2023 • -- a date which will live in infamy!" • 1941 • Pearl Harbor Attacked "DECEMBER 7

Franklin D. Roosevelt told the Teamsters Union Convention, September 11, 1940: "I stand, with my party ... on the platform ... adopted in Chicago ... It said: 'We will not participate in foreign wars, and we will not send our Army, naval or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside of the Americas, EXCEPT IN CASE OF ATTACK.'"