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American Minute with Bill Federer
"to the FLAG and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands ..."
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Thirteen Stars and Thirteen Stripes.
On JUNE 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress selected the FLAG of the United States.
Our founders were in the midst of fighting an eight year long war to come out from under the dominion of the most powerful globalist king in world history.
On JUNE 14, 1783, General George Washington sent a "Circular Letter" to the thirteen Governors of the newly independent states:
"I am now preparing to resign ...
Before I carry this resolution into effect, I think it a duty ... to make this my last official communication, to congratulate you on the glorious events which Heaven has been pleased to produce in our favor ...
The Citizens of America are from this period to be considered as the actors of a most conspicuous theater, which seems to be particularly designed by Providence for the display of human greatness and felicity ...
Heaven has crowned all its other blessing, by giving a fairer opportunity for political happiness, than any other nation has ever been favored with ..."
Washington continued, warning:
"According to the system of policy the states shall adopt at this moment, they will stand or fall;
and by their confirmation or lapse, it is yet to be decided, whether the Revolution must ultimately be considered as a blessing or a curse ...
not to the present age alone, for with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved."
Washington's concern for "unborn millions" was indicative of the founders, who sacrificed prosperity for posterity.
This contrasted with later politicians who sacrifice posterity for prosperity, yoking future generations with unpayable debt and lawlessness.
John Adams wrote, April 26, 1777:
"Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it."
Washington concluded with an admonition to follow the example of "the Divine Author of our blessed religion":
"I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you, and the state over which you preside, in His holy protection;
that He would incline the hearts of the citizens ... to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another ... and particularly for their brethren who have served in the field;
and finally, that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy,
and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation."
In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson designated JUNE 14 as "NATIONAL FLAG DAY."
"I ... call your attention to the approach of the anniversary of the day upon which THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES was adopted by the Congress as the emblem of the Union ...
I therefore ... request that throughout the nation ... the FOURTEENTH DAY of JUNE be observed as FLAG DAY with special patriotic exercises ...
to give significant expressions to our thoughtful love of America, our comprehension of the great mission of liberty and justice ... for an America which no man can corrupt, no influence draw away from its ideals, no force divide against itself ...
Done at the City of Washington ... in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen."
Speaking of the Flag, President Calvin Coolidge stated May 31, 1926:
"Our condition today is not merely that of one people UNDER ONE FLAG, but of a thoroughly united people who have seen bitterness and enmity which once threatened to sever them pass away, and a spirit of kindness and good will reign over them all."
Coolidge stated May 25, 1924, at the Confederate Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia:
"It is the maintenance of our American ideals, BENEATH A COMMON FLAG, under the blessings of Almighty God ... We know that Providence would have it so."
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt stated November 13, 1935:
"OUR FLAG for a century and a half has been the symbol of the principles of liberty of conscience, of religious freedom and equality before the law; and these concepts are deeply ingrained in our national character."
During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt stated on FLAG DAY, JUNE 14, 1942:
"The belief in man, created free, in the image of God - is the crucial difference between ourselves and the enemies we face today ...
We ask the German people, still dominated by their Nazi whip-masters, whether they would rather have the mechanized hell of Hitler's 'New' Order or - in place of that, freedom of speech and religion ...
We ask the Japanese people, trampled by their savage lords of slaughter, whether they would rather continue slavery and blood or - in place of them, freedom of speech and religion ...
We know that man, born to freedom in the image of God, will not forever suffer the oppressors' sword ..."
Roosevelt continued:
"I am going to close by reading you a prayer ...
'God of the free, we pledge our hearts and lives today to the cause of all free mankind.
Grant us victory over the tyrants who would enslave all free men and Nations ...
Grant us patience with the deluded and pity for the betrayed ...
Grant us ... valor that shall cleanse the world of oppression and the old base doctrine that the strong must eat the weak because they are strong.'"
Mentioning the Flag, Yale President Ezra Stiles explained, May 8, 1783, that America is different from most of world history where people were dominated by power concentrated into the hands of deep state government leaders:
"That symbol of union, THE AMERICAN FLAG with it increasing stripes and stars, may have an equally combining efficacy for ages ...
The senatorial constitution and consulate of the Roman Empire lasted from Tarquin (last Roman king, 509 BC) to Caesar (Roman dictator, 49 BC) ...
The Assyrian endured without mutation through a tract of one thousand three hundred years from Semiramis (legendary ancient Babylonian queen) to Sardanapalus (alleged last Assyrian ruler, 627 BC) ...
Nor was the policy of Egypt overthrown for a longer period from the days of Metzraim (upper and lower Nile kingdoms, c.3,300 BC)
till the time of Cambyses (Persian conqueror of Egypt, 525 BC) and Amasis (last great Egpytian ruler, 526 BC) ...
The Medo-Persian (550-330 BC) and Alexandrine Empires (356-323 BC), and that of Timur (1370-1405 AD), who once reigned from Smyrna to the Indus, were ... of short and transitory duration ...
Pragmatic sanction ... secured the imperial succession in the House of Austria for ages (Habsburgs, 1020-1780) ...
Whatever mutations may arise in the United States, perhaps hereditary monarchy and a standing army will be the last."
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Ben Franklin warned June 2, 1787:
"There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example o f Pharaoh - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever ...
There is a natural inclination in mankind to kingly government ... I am apprehensive ... that the government of the states may, in future times, end in a monarchy."
Yale President Ezra Stiles continued:
"This great American revolution, this recent political phenomenon ... will be ... contemplated by all nations ...
Navigation will carry THE AMERICAN FLAG around the globe itself; and display the thirteen stripes and new constellation at Bengal and Canton, on the Indus and Ganges, on the Whang-ho and the Yang-tse-kiang; and with commerce will import the wisdom and literature of the east ...
That prophecy of Daniel is now literally fulfilling - there shall be a universal traveling to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
This knowledge will be brought home and treasured up in America: and being here digested and carried to the highest perfection, may re-blaze back from America to Europe, Asia and Africa, and illumine the world with truth and liberty ..."
Ezra Stiles added:
"John Adams ... observes (in letter from Amsterdam, April 28, 1782) ...
'But the great designs of Providence must be accomplished ...
The progress of society will be accelerated by centuries by this revolution ...
American ideas of toleration and religious liberty ... will become the fashionable system of Europe very soon. Light spreads from the Dayspring in the west (Luke 1:78); and may it shine more and more until the perfect day (Proverbs 4:18) ...'"
Stiles concluded:
"The United States will embosom all the religious sects or denominations in Christendom ...
The Presbyterian, the Church of England ... the Unitas Fratrum ... Moravian bishops ... Ancient Bohemian churches ... the Baptists, the Friends, the Lutherans, the Romanists ... the Dutch, and Gallic, and German reformed or Calvinistic churches ... There is a Greek church brought from Smyrna ... There are Wesyans, Mennonites ... all ... who will give the religious complexion to America ... Episcopal ... Greek and Armenian patriarchates ...
With a most generous benevolence ... of a friendly cohabitation of all sects in America, proving that men may be good members of civil society, and yet differ in religion ...
Little would civilians have thought ages ago, that the world should ever look to America for models of government."
President James Buchanan stated March 4, 1857:
"We ought to cultivate peace, commerce, and friendship with all nations ... in a spirit of Christian benevolence toward our fellow-men ...
The people, under the protection of THE AMERICAN FLAG, have enjoyed civil and religious liberty."
In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln commented to State Senator James Scovel of New Jersey:
"If God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be - what its Divine Author intended it to be - no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage.
But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat (Joel 3:2, 12), where all the nations of the earth will assemble together UNDER ONE FLAG, worshiping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom."
When Abraham Lincoln died, President Andrew Johnson stated April 25, 1865:
"In order to mitigate that grief on earth which can only be assuaged by communion with the Father in heaven ...
I ... appoint ... the 25th day of May next, to be observed, wherever in the United States THE FLAG OF THE COUNTRY may be respected, as a day of humiliation and mourning, and I recommend ... citizens ... assemble in their respective places of worship, there to unite in solemn service to Almighty God."
President Rutherford B. Hayes noted in his diary that during the Civil War:
"Archbishop John Baptist Purcell strung THE AMERICAN FLAG, in the crisis of our fate, from the top of the Cathedral in Cincinnati April 16, 1861! The spire was beautiful before, but the Catholic prelate made it radiant with hope and glory for our country!"
When Rutherford B. Hayes died, President Benjamin Harrison described him, January 18, 1893:
"He was a patriotic citizen, a lover of THE FLAG and of our free institutions, an industrious and conscientious civil officer, a soldier of dauntless courage, a loyal comrade and friend, a sympathetic and helpful neighbor, and the honored head of a happy Christian home."
President Andrew Johnson stated while serving as a Senator from Tennessee (The Life and Public Services of Andrew Johnson-State Papers, Speeches and Addresses, by John Savage, NY: Derby & Miller, 1866, p. 247, appendix p. 87, Jan. 31, 1862):
"Let us look forward to the time when we can take THE FLAG OF OUR COUNTRY and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribe for our motto: 'Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,' and exclaim, 'Christ first, our country next!'"
In dedicating the Oregon Trail, President Warren G. Harding stated July 3, 1923:
"Never in the history of the world has there been a finer example of civilization following Christianity.
The missionaries led under the banner of the Cross, and the settlers moved close behind under the STAR-SPANGLED SYMBOL OF THE NATION."
President Benjamin Harrison stated July 21, 1892
"Let THE NATIONAL FLAG float over every schoolhouse in the country and the exercises be such as shall impress upon our youth the patriotic duties of American citizenship ... Let there be expressions of gratitude to Divine Providence."
On FLAG DAY, JUNE 14, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower signed Public Law 396 adding the phrase "One Nation Under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance:
"Sec. 7. The following is designated as the Pledge of Allegiance to THE FLAG: 'I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.'
Such pledge should be rendered by standing with the right hand over the heart. However, civilians will always show full respect to the flag when the pledge is given by merely standing at attention, men removing the headdress. Persons in uniform shall render the military salute."
President Eisenhower stood on the steps of the Capitol Building and recited the revised Pledge of Allegiance for the first time.
The Pledge of Allegiance was first written in 1892 by a Baptist minister from Boston named Francis Bellamy , who was ordained in the Baptist Church of Little Falls, New York.
Francis Bellamy was a member of the staff of The Youth's Companion, which first published the Pledge on September 8, 1892, in Boston, Massachusetts.
Public-school children first recited it during the National School Celebration on the 400th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America, October 12, 1892, at the dedication of the 1892 Chicago World's Fair.
The words "under God" were taken from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:
"... that this Nation, under God , shall have a new birth of freedom."
In 1979, a publication approved by and printed under authority of Congress titled " The Capitol-A Pictorial History of the Capitol and of the Congress" (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office , 1979), p. 24, commented regarding the Pledge:
"This Pledge attests what has been true about America from the beginning. Faith in the transcendent, sovereign God was in the public philosophy - the American consensus. America's story opened with the first words of the Bible, In the beginning God ...
We are truthfully one nation under God 'and our institutions presuppose a Divine Being,' wrote Justice William O. Douglas in 1966 ...
Only a nation founded on theistic presupposition would adopt a first amendment to ensure the free exercise of all religions or of none.
The government would be neutral among the many denominations and no one church would become the state church.
But America and its institutions of government could not be neutral about God."
On January 10, 1963, Democrat Congressman Albert Sydney Herlong Jr., of Florida, read into the Congressional Record the 45 communist goals for America, which included:
"... 17. Get control of the schools . Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack ...
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV ...
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible ...
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned ...
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the 'common man.'
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the 'big picture' ...
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use 'united force' to solve economic, political or social problems."
The Founding Fathers, for all their human failings, gave a present to future Americans, namely, each citizen gets to determine their own destiny, in a sense, be the king of their own life, and then all citizens, together, are the king of the country.
The pledge is "to the Flag and to the Republic for which it stands."
A "republic" is where the people are king, ruling the country through their public servants called representatives.
When a person pledges allegiance to the Flag, they are saying that they are the king, not some power usurping totalitarian deep state.
"Kneeling" is the universal sign of surrender.
Early Christians were martyred for refusing to kneel to anyone other than Jesus.
When someone kneels in protest to the flag, they are surrendering. They are effectively saying:
"I don't want to be the king anymore, I protest this system where I participate in ruling myself, I want to relinquish authority over my life to someone else."
Those who dishonor the flag are rejecting:
- equality before the law,
- freedom of speech,
- freedom of conscience,
- freedom of religion, and
- inalienable rights from the Creator.
On CNN Tonight with Don Lemon (2/1/19), singer Gladys Knight-the Empress of Soul, explained why she was going to sing the National Anthem, the Star-Spangled Banner, at Super Bowl LIII:
“As far as this is concerned, I grew up with the national anthem ... We used to sing it in school before school started. We used to say prayers in school before school started, and we just don’t have that anymore and I’m just — I’m just hoping that it will be about our country and how we treat each other and being the great country that we are.”
Warning of this, Alexander Solzhenitsyn stated in his speech, "Godlessness: the First Step to the Gulag," May 10, 1983:
"Western societies are losing more and more of their religious essence as they thoughtlessly yield up their younger generation to atheism ...
Atheist teachers in the West are bringing up a younger generation in a spirit of hatred of their own society."
Attorney Chris Banescu, a regular contributor to OrthodoxyToday.org , wrote July 18, 2011:
"As a survivor of the Communist Holocaust I am horrified to witness how my beloved America, my adopted country, is gradually being transformed into a secularist and atheistic utopia, where communist ideals are glorified and promoted, while ...
God has been progressively erased from our public and educational institutions ...
Those of us who have experienced and witnesses first-hand the atrocities and terror of communism understand fully why such evil takes root, how it grows and deceives, and the kind of hell it will ultimately unleash ...
Godlessness is always the first step towards tyranny and oppression!"
Emphasizing America's dedication to God, President Eisenhower stated JUNE 14, 1954:
"From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural school house, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.
To anyone who truly loves America, nothing could be more inspiring than ... this re-dedication of our youth, on each school morning, to our country's true meaning ...
In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future; in this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource, in peace or in war."
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Eisenhower, Dwight David. June 14, 1954, on signing the Act of Congress, (bill introduced by Representative Louis Rabout of Michigan - May 6, 1954) which added the phrase "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance. James Beasley Simpson, Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56 (NY: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1957), p. 73.
Supreme Court Dismisses Pledge Case on Technicality, Mon. Jun 14, 2004, WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed on Monday a constitutional challenge to the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance recited by schoolchildren, without deciding the key church-state issue. The justices ruled that California atheist Michael Newdow lacked the legal right to bring the challenge in the first place.
"We conclude that Newdow lacks standing," Justice John Paul Stevens declared in the opinion. The ruling came down on the 50th anniversary of the addition of the words "under God" to the pledge.
Congress adopted the June 14, 1954, law in an effort to distinguish America's religious values and heritage from those of communism, which is atheistic.
June 14, 2004 A Unanimous Supreme Court Vacates Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals Decision Striking Down "Under God" In The Pledge Of Allegiance WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the United States Supreme Court held, in a unanimous decision, that Michael Newdow, an atheist from California who had challenged the constitutionality of the words "Under God" in the pledge of allegiance, did not have standing to bring his case. The legal effect of the Supreme Court's ruling is to vacate the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that struck the words "Under God" from the pledge. Liberty Counsel, a nationwide civil liberties legal defense and education organization headquartered in Orlando, Florida, filed an Amicus Brief at the United States Supreme Court in the case. The Supreme Court decision held that Michael Newdow lacked standing to bring his case because he did not have the legal authority to speak on behalf of his daughter. Mr. Newdow is currently involved in a custody battle with his ex-wife. Justices Rehnquist, Thomas and O'Connor issued a concurring opinion agreeing that Mr. Newdow lacked standing, but also arguing that the phrase "Under God" in the pledge is constitutional. The legal effect of the Supreme Court's ruling is to vacate the Ninth Circuit's earlier decision holding the pledge to be unconstitutional. After today's ruling, it is as if Mr. Newdow had never brought his case in the courts. Prior to today's ruling by the Supreme Court, schoolchildren in states covered by the Ninth Circuit (Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington) were barred from saying the pledge of allegiance with the inclusion of the phrase "Under God." Now, there is no prohibition against saying the entire pledge in those states. Mathew Staver, President and General Counsel of Liberty Counsel, stated, "We are pleased that the effect of the Supreme Court's decision is to uphold the constitutionality of the pledge of allegiance. Schoolchildren in states covered by the Ninth Circuit can now say the entire pledge of allegiance without fear of censorship." Staver continued, "Justices Rehnquist, Thomas and O'Connor are correct that the pledge of allegiance is constitutional. Our history is not complete without God. If "under God" were removed, many history books and founding documents will be in jeopardy, not the least of which is the Declaration of Independence." ### The United States Supreme Court's Opinion will be posted on its web site later today. Read the brief filed by Liberty Counsel before the Supreme Court. Liberty Counsel, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a national public interest law firm dedicated to advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of human life and the traditional family. On the campus of Liberty University School of Law in Lynchburg, Virginia, Liberty Counsel's Center for Constitutional Litigation and Policy trains attorneys, law students, policymakers, legislators, clergy and world leaders in constitutional principles and government policies. Mathew D. Staver, Esq., Liberty Counsel, PO Box 540774, Orlando, FL 32854, 800-671-1776 http://www.lc.org/donations.html
On May 8, 1783, as the president of Yale College, Ezra Stiles gave a
major Election Address, titled "The United States Elevated to Glory and Honor," before the Governor and the General Assembly of Connecticut, declaring:
"The crown and glory of our confederacy is the council of the GENERAL CONGRESS, standing on the annual election of the united respective states, and revocable at pleasure. This lays the foundation of a permanent union in the American Republic, which may at length convince the world, that of all the policies to be found on earth...the most perfect one has been invented and realized in America."
President James Buchanan stated in his Inaugural Address, March 4, 1857:
"The people, under the protection of the American flag, have enjoyed civil and religious liberty."
President James Buchanan stated:
"Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribe for our motto: 'Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,' and exclaim, 'Christ first, our country next!'"
John Savage, The Life and Public Services of Andrew Johnson, p. 247. Stephen Abbott Northrop, D.D., A Cloud of Witnesses (Portland, Oregon: American Heritage Ministries, 1987; Mantle Ministries, 228 Still Ridge, Bulverde, Texas), p. 255.
In 1865, shortly before Lee's surrender, Abraham Lincoln began his
second term. In visiting with State Senator James Scovel of New Jersey, he shared:
"Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I
believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshiping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom."
On January 18, 1893, from his Executive Mansion in Washington,
D.C., President Benjamin Harrison wrote:
"To the people of the United States:
The death of Rutherford B. Hayes, who was President of the United
States from March 4, 1877, to March 4, 1881, at his home in Fremont, Ohio, at 11 p.m. yesterday, is an event the announcement of which will be received with very general and very sincere sorrow. His public service extended over many years and over a wide range of
official duty. He was a patriotic citizen, a lover of the flag and of our free institutions, an industrious and conscientious civil officer, a soldier of dauntless courage, a loyal comrade and friend, a sympathetic and helpful neighbor, and the honored head of a happy Christian home."
Franklin D. Roosevelt stated November 13, 1935:
"Our flag for a century and a half has been the symbol of the principles of liberty of conscience, of religious freedom and equality before the law; and these concepts are deeply ingrained in our national character."
On Flag Day, JUNE 14, 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt stated:
"The belief in man, created free, in the image of God - is the crucial difference between ourselves and the enemies we face today...
We know that man, born to freedom in the image of God, will not forever suffer the oppressors' sword.
The peoples of the United Nations are taking that sword from the oppressors' hands. With it they will destroy those tyrants...
I am going to close by reading you a prayer that has been written for the United Nations on this Day:
'God of the free, we pledge our hearts and lives today to the cause of
all free mankind.
Grant us victory over the tyrants who would enslave all free men and
Nations.
Grant us faith and understanding to cherish all those who fight for freedom as if they were our brothers.
Grant us brotherhood in hope and union, not only for the space of this bitter war, but for the days to come which shall and must unite all the children of earth.
Our earth is but a small star in the great universe. Yet of it we can
make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color, or theory.
Grant us that courage and foreseeing to begin this task today that our children and our children's children may be proud of the name of man.
The spirit of man has awakened and the soul of man has gone forth.
Grant us the wisdom and the vision to comprehend the greatness of man's spirit, that suffers and endures so hugely for a goal beyond his own brief span.
Grant us honor for our dead who died in the faith, honor for our living who work and strive for the faith, redemption and security for all captive lands and peoples.
Grant us patience with the deluded and pity for the betrayed.
And grant us the skill and the valor that shall cleanse the world of oppression and the old base doctrine that the strong must eat the weak because they are strong.
Yet most of all grant us brotherhood, not only for this day but for all our years - a brotherhood not of words but of acts and deeds.
We are all of us children of earth-grant us that simple knowledge.
If our brothers are oppressed, then we are oppressed. If they hunger, we hunger. If their freedom is taken away, our freedom is not secure.
Grant us a common faith that man shall know bread and peace - that he shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, an equal opportunity and an equal chance to do his best, not only in our own lands, but throughout the world.
And in that faith let us march, toward the clean world our hands can make. Amen.'"
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12/12 Père Marquette, French missionary to Indians of Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Mississippi River valley, who settled Chicago
12/11 Was it a Pre-Columbian Paradise?: The Aztec Empire, Montezuma, & Cortés
12/10 Jewish Persecution in Russia & Europe, and U.S. leaders who backed creation of modern State of Israel
12/9 Rasputin "The Holy Devil", Russias Bolshevik Revolution, Socialism, Lenin, Stalin, & Warnings from Solzhenitsyn
12/8 "Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound ..." - John Newton, William Wilberforce, & ending slavery in the British Empire
12/7 Pearl Harbor Attacked "DECEMBER 7, 1941, -- a date which will live in infamy!"
12/6 PragerU video: The Amazing Story of Christmas
12/5 Saint Nicholas & Origins of Secret Gift-Giving!
11/30 Irving Berlin and the classic song "God Bless America!"
11/30 "My COUNTRY tis of Thee, Sweet LAND of LIBERTY"
11/29 C.S. Lewis: "the most dejected & reluctant convert ... kicking, struggling ... darting ... for a chance to escape"
11/24 Spanish & French attempts to settle America; and Why Pilgrims decided not to sail to Guyana
11/9 John F. Kennedy shot. What did he & others warn about the Deep State Socialist Globalism?
11/8 Voting: How America is an Experiment in Self-Government"
11/3 William Howard Taft: A President who became Chief Justice -- "Advancement of modern civilization ... dependent ... on the spread of Christianity"
11/2 Would FDR be elected by Democrats Today? --A flashback to beliefs a generation ago
10/29 Luther & the Protestant Reformation Political Repercussions on Founding of America
10/12 The Four Voyages of Columbus to the New World--and Hurricanes in the Caribbean
10/11 The Forgotten History of Umayyad & Abbasid Invasions of Spain, France & Italy, and the 700 year Reconquista
10/10 Colonial Clergymen John Wise, Thomas Hooker & John Witherspoon, who signed Declaration of Independence: "A Republic must either preserve its Virtue or lose its Liberty"
10/9 Miscalculation of Global Proportions led Columbus to attempt a a westward voyage
10/8 Marco Polo traveled by land to the East & Why Columbus sailed by sea to the West
10/7 Battle of Lepanto, Sinking of Spanish Armada, and Pilgrim Governor William Bradford
9/27 Elizabeth, Englands Virgin Queen, and Religion under her Reign
9/26 Fisher Ames "A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction"
9/25 President Gerald Ford -- Socialism Warning "A government big enough to GIVE YOU EVERYTHING YOU WANT is a government big enough to TAKE FROM YOU EVERYTHING YOU HAVE"
9/17 U.S. CONSTITUTION--a Miracle Plan to prevent a Tyrant from Ruling by Mandates & Executive Orders and Weaponizing Law Enforcement Against Political Opponents!
9/11 September 11th - Political Islams Long War on the West
9/03
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Faith of nations forefathers celebrated at Plymouth
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