Today's American Minute

Ulysses S. Grant: Union General & 18th President "Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties" - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 11, 2023 • Ulysses S. Grant: Union General & 18th President "Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet anchor of your liberties"

Grant stated in his Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1873: "Under Providence I have been called a second time to act as Executive over this great nation ...The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected. To this correction I stand committed."

Persecution of Virginia Baptists influenced James Madison to Defend Liberty of Conscience - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 06, 2023 • Persecution of Virginia Baptists influenced James Madison to Defend Liberty of Conscience

Francis L. Hawks wrote in Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of the United States of America (1836): "No dissenters in Virginia experienced for a time harsher treatment than the Baptists ... They were beaten and imprisoned ... Cruelty taxed ingenuity to devise new modes of punishment and annoyance."

"America has gone a long way down the wrong road--We must turn around ... If ever we needed God's help, it is now!" Billy Graham - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 04, 2023 • "America has gone a long way down the wrong road--We must turn around ... If ever we needed God's help • it is now!" Billy Graham

Rev. Graham continued: "What is the problem? The real problem is within ourselves ... I believe the fundamental crisis of our time is a crisis of the spirit. We have lost sight of the moral and spiritual principles on which this nation was established - principles drawn largely from the Judeo-Christian tradition as found in the Bible...

James Monroe, 5th President "When the people become ignorant & corrupt ... they become the willing instruments of their own ... ruin" - American Minute with Bill Federer

April 01, 2023 • 5th President "When the people become ignorant & corrupt ... they become the willing instruments of their own ... ruin" • James Monroe

"When the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate ... they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin."

Coolidge warned of Deep-State "Bureaucracy ... overwhelms democracy ... having authority over everybody and being responsible to nobody" - American Minute with Bill Federer

March 31, 2023 • Coolidge warned of Deep-State "Bureaucracy ... overwhelms democracy ... having authority over everybody and being responsible to nobody"

Coolidge exposed the deep-state bureaucracy: "No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline."