Today's American Minute
The Ten Commandments & the need for a Moral, Educated Population in a Self-Governing Republic - American Minute with Bill Federer
On February 5, 1996, Margaret Thatcher stated: "The Decalogue (TEN COMMANDMENTS) are addressed to each and every person.This is the origin ... the sanctity of the individual ... You don't get that in any other political creed ... It is personal liberty with personal responsibility."
Shortest term, Longest Inaugural: 9th President Wm. Harrison "and, like the false christs whose coming was foretold by the Savior ... impose upon the true and most faithful disciples of liberty" - American Minute with Bill Federer
Gravest Warning - 9th President Wm. Harrison "and like the false Christs whose coming was foretold by the Savior ... impose upon the true and most faithful disciples of liberty" - American Minute with Bill Federer Longest Inaugural Shortest term
William Henry Harrison, in his Inaugural Address, March 4, 1841, warned: "Limited as are the powers which have been granted, still enough have been granted to constitute a despotism if concentrated ... This state of things has been in part effected by ... the never-failing tendency of political power to increase itself ..."
Haystack Prayer Meeting & World Missionary Movement, Adoniram & Ann Judson to Burma - American Minute with Bill Federer
In 1806, five Williams College students met by the Hoosic River in Massachusetts near a grove of trees to discuss how to reach the world with the Gospel. Suddenly a thunderstorm poured down torrential rain and the students hid next to a haystack till it passed. While there, they prayed and committed themselves to world missions.
Socialism Warning "A government big enough to GIVE YOU EVERYTHING YOU WANT is a government big enough to TAKE FROM YOU EVERYTHING YOU HAVE"-President Ford - American Minute with Bill Federer
President Ford addressed the Annual Dinner Meeting of the Bay Area Council in San Francisco, CA, April 4, 1975: "Over the 25 years that I had the privilege of serving in the House of Representatives ... well-motivated Members of the House of Representatives would get up and argue effectively and convincingly and certainly in the highest motivation for this social program or that social program. Pretty soon, we started to have this proliferation, and believe me, it has proliferated ...
I recall most vividly sitting there on many occasions and thinking to myself, don't they realize that a government big enough to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take from us everything we have?"
William Penn - Imprisoned for Liberty of Conscience - American Minute with Bill Federer
William Penn - Imprisoned for Liberty of Conscience
Penn was locked up on London's notorious Newgate Prison, 1670, where he wrote: "By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind ... but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way ..."