Today's American Minute

Independence Day - "GREATEST REVOLUTION that has ever taken place IN THE WORLD'S HISTORY"-Ronald Reagan - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 03, 2026 • Independence Day -- "GREATEST REVOLUTION that has ever taken place IN THE WORLD'S HISTORY"-Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan stated 1961: "In this country of ours took place THE GREATEST REVOLUTION that has ever taken place IN THE WORLD'S HISTORY -- Every other revolution simply exchanged one set of rulers for another ... Here for THE FIRST TIME in all the THOUSANDS OF YEARS of man's relation to man ... the founding fathers established the idea that you and I had within ourselves the GOD-GIVEN RIGHT AND ABILITY to DETERMINE OUR OWN DESTINY."

John Langdon: A Courageous Founding Father - American Minute with Bill Federer

July 01, 2026

LISTEN Download as PDF ... John Langdon was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1741 and grew up as a member of the North Congregational Church, where his distant relative, future Harvard President Rev. Samuel Langdon was pastor from 1747-1774. Other notable individuals who had worshiped at the North Congregational Church include: -William Whipple - Signer of Declaration of Independence; -Daniel Webster - Secretary of State; -John Paul Jones - Navy hero; and -George Washington - first President. At the age of 22, John Langdon became a sea captain, like his older brother Woodbury Langdon. They sailed back and forth...

Supreme Court, 1892 - America a "Christian Nation" - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 27, 2026 • 1892 - America a "Christian Nation • Supreme Court

"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation ..."-U.S. Supreme Court, 1891; President Truman wrote August 28, 1947: "This is a Christian Nation. More than a half century ago that declaration was written into the decrees of the highest court in this land."

Colonial Pastors Who Influenced American Government - John Wise, Thomas Hooker, John Witherspoon: "A Republic must either preserve its Virtue or lose its Liberty" - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 24, 2026 • Colonial Clergymen John Wise • Thomas Hooker & John Witherspoon • who signed Declaration of Independence: "A Republic must either preserve its Virtue or lose its Liberty"

Calvin Coolidge stated: "In its main feature the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document ... Unless the faith of the American in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish."

Patrick Henry "As for me, give me liberty or give me death!" - American Minute with Bill Federer

June 21, 2026 • give me liberty or give me death!" • Patrick Henry "As for me

Patrick Henry spoke to the Second Virginia Convention, which was meeting in Richmond's St. John's Church: "I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery ... I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past ... Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss ..."