On March 4, 1853, as the 14th U.S. President, Franklin Pierce stated in his Inaugural Address: "It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling Providence."
Magellan was hit by a bamboo spear, surrounded and then killed. Magellan's crew continued to sail the ship, Victoria, and finally made it back to Spain in September of 1522.
Sir Isaac Newton constructed one of the first practical reflecting telescopes. He wrote in Principia, 1687: "This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being ... All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the 'Lord God.'"
President Ronald Reagan in meeting South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, November 14, 1983: "At the worship service Sunday morning with our soldiers ... less than a mile from one of the most tyrannical regimes on Earth ... a choir of little girls ... all orphans ... closing the service, singing "America, the Beautiful" in our language, was a spiritual experience."
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, a soldier who served with Cortés, recorded ... "Cortés said many other things very well expressed, which they would report them to their prince Montezuma. Cortés also told them that one of the objects for which our great Emperor had sent us to their country was to abolish human sacrifices and the other evil rites which they practiced."
