American’s Faith Minute

General Douglas MacArthur told West Point cadets, May 1962: “The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training – sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those Divine attributes which his Maker gave when He created man in His own image …” More

Franklin D. Roosevelt stated of Hitler, December 15, 1941: “Government to him is not the servant … of the people but their absolute master.”More

Theodore Roosevelt stated October 24, 1903: “In no other place and at no other time has the experiment of government of the people, by the people, for the people, been tried on so vast a scale as here in our own country.”More

British Statesman Edmund Burke addressed Parliament, 1775: “All Protestantism … is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our Northern Colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.”More

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 […]

Beginning in 1492, Christopher Columbus took FOUR VOYAGES to the New World: 1ST VOYAGE (1492-1493), he DISCOVERED land; 2ND VOYAGE (1493-1496), he encountered a hurricane, malaria, and CANNIBALS; 3RD VOYAGE (1498-1500), he faced doldrums, rebellion, and was ARRESTED; 4TH VOYAGE (1502-1504), he survived another hurricane, […]

All those blaming Columbus for sailing west must turn one chapter back in the history books to find that it was actually Islamic jihad disrupting the land routes from Europe to India and China that resulted in Columbus looking for a sea route. More

In 711 AD, the commander of the Muslim crusaders, called “Moors,” was Ṭāriq ibn Ziyad. Ṭāriq landed, with his 80,000-man Umayyad army, at a place where there was a large mount, for which the Arabic word is “jabal.” The place took his name “Jabal Ṭāriq,” or as it was later pronounced “Gibraltar.” More

“The way forward for America is a return to the morality & values of the past” -Major General Patrick Brady, Medal of Honor recipientMore

Reagan stated in Beijing, China, April 27, 1984: “I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state … But both theories fail. Both deny those God-given liberties that are the inalienable right of each person on this planet, indeed, they deny the existence of God.”More

U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge stated in 1919: “The United States is THE WORLD’S BEST HOPE … Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance … for if we stumble & fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.” More

James Wilson wrote in his Lectures on Law, 1790-91: “In a free country, EVERY CITIZEN forms a part of the SOVEREIGN POWER: he possesses a vote.”More

After these three major defeats: the Battle of Malta, September 11, 1565; the Battle of Vienna, September 11, 1683; and the Battle of Zenta, September 11, 1697, the expansion of the Ottoman Empire stopped and began its slow decline. Many think it is more than coincidence that September 11th was chosen for the 2001 and 2012 […]

Read as PDF…The Inspiring Charlie Kirkby Bill FedererThe thoughts below were first written less than 24 hours after Charlie Kirk was shot …—I am still in shock and did not sleep last night.Social media is filled with tributes from across the world of people sharing how Charlie impacted their lives. Charlie […]

There was rioting, pillaging, and burning of railroad cars, destroying an estimated $80 million worth of property in 27 states. A New York Times editorial, July 9, 1894, called Debs “a lawbreaker at large, an enemy of the human race.” “Debs’ Rebellion” became a national issue when it interrupted the trains delivering mail. […]

ACLU founder Roger Baldwin, 1935: “I am for socialism … I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.” President Grover Cleveland, December 2, 1895: “Reported massacres of Christians in Armenia … fanatic hostility to Christian […]

As Rome exhibited weakness, it experienced terrorist attacks. Attila the Hun, “The Scourge of God,” attacked with an unstoppable army of a half-million warriors.More

President Ford told the Annual Dinner Meeting of the Bay Area Council in San Francisco, CA, April 4, 1975: “Representatives would … argue … convincingly … for this … or that social program … I recall … sitting there … thinking to myself, don’t they realize that a government big enough to give us everything we want […]

On Palm Sunday in 937 A.D., during the reign of Caliph al-Radi of the Abbasid Caliphate, ordered Muslim rioters to plunder the Church of Calvary and the Church of the Resurrection.More

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 …” More

LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF …In 1571, the Spanish navy stopped the Islamic Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Lepanto.In 1572, Spain killed 10,000 Dutch Reformed in the “Spanish Fury” in Antwerp, Belgium.The English and the Dutch worked together to defeat the Invincible Spanish Armada in 1588. […]

In 1862, the London Jewish Chronicle reported: “We now have a few words of the Jews of the United States in general … The Constitution having established perfect religious liberty, Jews were free in America … They … in a comparatively short time, prospered and throve there in a degree unexampled in Europe.”More

Tisha B’Av in the year 587 B.C. was the day the Babylonians destroyed Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, and carried the Tribe of Judah into captivity.More

Later, Astronaut James Irwin became an evangelical minister. Of his experience of walking on the moon, he stated: “I felt the power of God as I’d never felt it before … Being on the moon had a profound spiritual impact upon my life. Before I entered space with the Apollo 15 mission in July of 1971, I was … a silent […]

Lincoln stated: “… I locked the door, and got down on my knees before Almighty God, and prayed to Him mightily for victory at Gettysburg. I told Him that this was His war, and our cause His cause, but we couldn’t stand another Fredericksburg or Chancellorsville. And I then and there made a solemn vow to Almighty God, that if He […]

The Articles of Confederation were an attempt to loosely knit the thirteen States together, while leaving most of the authority under each individual State’s jurisdiction.More

Nelson Mandela was awarded the Liberty Medal in Philadelphia, July 4, 1993. He spoke: “The Liberty Bell is a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world.” (The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 4, 1993)More

Noted religious critic and anti-theist Christopher Hitchens admitted in his work Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates (2007): “Of course, those secularists like myself who like to cite this Treaty must concede that its conciliatory language was part of America’s attempt to come to terms with Barbary demands”More

Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote de La Mancha (1605): “They put a chain on me … I passed my life in that bano with several other(s) … marked out as held to ransom … We suffered from hunger and scanty clothing … Nothing distressed us so much as … seeing … unheard of cruelties my master inflicted upon the […]

Immediately after Jefferson became President in 1801, Barbary pirates demanded $225,000, plus an annual tribute of $25,000. When Jefferson refused, the Pasha (Lord) of Tripoli declared war — the first war the U.S. was in after becoming a nation. Jefferson sent U.S. frigates to the Mediterranean to protect American shipping.More