Today's American Minute

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

"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

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

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 ..."

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

"DUTY is ours; results are God's"

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

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."

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Grover Cleveland faced crises of late 19th Century: Socialism, Riots, Attacks on Marriage, Islamism ... - American Minute with Bill Federer

Attacks on Marriage Grover Cleveland faced crises of late 19th Century: Socialism Islamism ... Riots

Grover Cleveland faced crises of late 19th Century: Socialism, Riots, Attacks on Marriage, Islamism ... - American Minute with Bill Federer

President Grover Cleveland defended natural marriage of one man-one woman from attacks, stating in his First Annual Message, December 8, 1885: "In the Territory of Utah the law of the United States passed for suppression of polygamy ... The strength, the perpetuity, and the destiny of the nation rest upon our homes, established by the law of God ... The mothers of our land, who rule the nation as they mold the characters and guide the actions of their sons, live according to God's holy ordinances, and each, secure and happy in the exclusive love of the father of her children, sheds the warm light of true womanhood, unperverted and unpolluted, upon all within her pure and wholesome family circle. These are not the cheerless, crushed, and unwomanly mothers of polygamy."

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U.S. Senate Chaplains & U.S. House Chaplains - American Minute with Bill Federer

U.S. Senate Chaplains & U.S. House Chaplains - American Minute with Bill Federer

U.S. Senate Chaplain Barry Black stated: "The first Senate, meeting in New York City on APRIL 25, 1789, elected the Right Reverend Samuel Provost, the Episcopal Bishop of New York, as its first Chaplain ... Since then, all sessions of the Senate have been opened with prayer, strongly affirming the Senate's faith in God as Sovereign Lord of our Nation."

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Generals and Presidents endorsed Bibles and Faith - American Minute with Bill Federer

Generals and Presidents endorsed Bibles and Faith

Generals and Presidents endorsed Bibles and Faith - American Minute with Bill Federer

General John J. Pershing wrote the Preface of the New Testament & Book of Psalms, August 10, 1917: "To the American Soldier aroused against a nation waging war in violation of all Christian principles. Our people are fighting in the cause of Liberty ... Hardships will be your lot, but trust in God will give you comfort; temptation will befall you, but the teachings of our Savior will give you strength. Let your valor as a soldier and your conduct as a man be an inspiration to your comrades and an honor to your country."

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