Today's American Minute
Circuit-riding Preacher Peter Cartwright vs Circuit-riding Attorney Abe Lincoln vs Judge Stephen Douglas - American Minute with Bill Federer
Lincoln warned, January 27, 1838:
"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad.
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
First Things First - Religious Freedom & Who Influenced Jefferson's Views on Separation of Church & State - American Minute with Bill Federer
Over time, brilliant legal minds have used Jefferson's words to prohibit Jefferson's beliefs.
Jefferson believed in a Creator, as he wrote in the Declaration: "All men are endowed by their CREATOR,"
yet in 2005, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones, in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, ruled students could not be taught of a CREATOR: "to preserve the separation of church and state."
Billy Sunday Pro-Baseball Player comes out ... as a Christian evangelist! - preached to 100 million & pioneered radio evangelism - American Minute with Bill Federer
He challenged:
"Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone."
"My COUNTRY 'tis of Thee, Sweet LAND of LIBERTY"; & How Patriotism is opposite of Globalism - American Minute with Bill Federer
"My COUNTRY 'tis of Thee Sweet LAND of LIBERTY" - American Minute with Bill Federer
Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a patriotic address to the White House Correspondents' Association, February 12, 1943:
"In every battalion, and in every ship's crew, you will find every kind of American citizen representing every occupation, every section, every origin, every religion, and every political viewpoint.
Ask them what they are fighting for, and every one of them will say, 'I am fighting for MY COUNTRY.'"
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" --Edmund Burke & the French Revolution - American Minute with Bill Federer
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" -Edmund Burke on the French Revolution - American Minute with Bill Federer
Edmund Burke is considered the most influential orator in the British House of Commons in the 18th century.
His first notable writings was an anonymous publication A Vindication of Natural Society, 1756, which was a satirical criticism of the deism promoted by Lord Bolingbroke:
"... The same engines which were employed for the destruction of religion, might be employed with equal success for the subversion of government."