American Minute with Bill Federer OCT. 28 - Statue of Liberty

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American Minute with Bill Federer OCT. 28 - Statue of Liberty - 'America...Mankind's Second Chance'-FDR The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World was dedicated OCTOBER 28, 1886. The 450,000 lbs statue, standing 305 feet above the pedestal base, was gift from France. Built by Gustave Eiffel, builder of the Eiffel Tower, it was designed by Auguste Bartholdi, who wrote: "The statue was born for this place which inspired its conception. May God be pleased to bless my efforts and my work, and to crown it with success, the duration and the moral influence which it ought to have." At the Statue's dedication ceremony, Reverend Richard S. Storrs prayed: "Our Heavenly Father...by whose counsel and might the courses of the worlds are wisely ordained and irresistibly established...We bless and praise Thee... It is in Thy favor, and through the operation of the Gospel of Thy Grace, that cities stand in quiet prosperity; that peaceful commerce covers the seas... We pray that the Liberty which it represents may continue...for all the nations of the earth; that in equity and charity their sure foundations may be established... that they may be ever the joyful servants of Him to whose holy dominion and kingdom shall be no end." Dwight Eisenhower remarked April 8, 1954: "I have just come from...the dedication of a new stamp... The stamp has on it a picture of the Statue of Liberty and 'In God We Trust'... It represents...a Nation whose greatness is based on a firm unshakeable belief that all of us mere mortals are dependent upon the mercy of a Superior Being." Franklin D. Roosevelt stated, October 17, 1939: "Remembering the words written on the Statue of Liberty, let us lift a lamp beside new golden doors and build new refuges for the tired, for the poor, for the huddled masses yearning to be free." On the Statue of Liberty's 50th Anniversary, OCTOBER 28, 1936, Franklin D. Roosevelt stated: "Millions...adopted this homeland because...the things they most desired could be theirs - freedom of opportunity, freedom of thought, freedom to worship God...." FDR added: "Rulers...increase their power over the common men. The seamen they sent to find that gold found instead the way of escape for the common man from those rulers. What they found over the Western horizon was not the silk and jewels of Cathay but mankind's second chance - a chance to create a new world after he had almost spoiled an old one. The Almighty seems purposefully to have withheld that second chance until the time when men would most need and appreciate liberty..." FDR continued: "For over three centuries a steady stream of men, women and children followed the beacon of liberty... They brought to us strength and moral fiber developed in a civilization centuries old but fired anew by the dream of a better life... The overwhelming majority of those who came from...the Old World to our American shores were not the laggards, not the timorous, not the failures..." FDR ended: "They were men and women who had the supreme courage to strike out for themselves, to abandon language and relatives, to start at the bottom without influence, without money... Perhaps Providence did prepare this American continent to be a place of the second chance." Relighting the Statue of Liberty, July 3, 1986, Ronald Reagan said: "I've always thought that a Providential Hand had something to do with the founding of this country, that God had His reasons for placing this land here between two great oceans to be found by a certain kind of people." John Adams wrote in his notes on A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765: "I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant, and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth." Get the book, America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations American Minute archives Watch Faith in History     News from AmericanMinute.com http://www.iecinternational.org/ Get the book, There Really is a Santa Claus-The History of Saint Nicholas & Christmas Holiday Traditions Teach English overseas! a month or a year - and be paid! - Find out MORE here  Visit the American Minute archive   Click here to shop AMERICAN MINUTE store Read the Daily Reading at:  http://www.biblegateway.com/reading-plans/old-new-testament/2013//10/28 Receive the daily American Minute on your Facebook wall, Twitter feed, or RSS reader.  Get a great book and help a great cause: James Nyondo's Absolute Integrity: The Bridge to Your Destiny Please support the American Minute.   Click here to make a donation. Thank you!    American Minute is a registered trademark. Permission is granted to forward. reprint or duplicate with acknowledgement to vwww.AmericanMinute.com

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Parental Rights- Senate Hearing on UN Disabilities Treaty November 5 – Urgent Calls Needed!

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Senate Hearing on UN Disabilities Treaty November 5 – Urgent Calls Needed! October 29, 2013   Dear Friend of Parental Rights, Last year, your grassroots activism defeated the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). But this treaty has returned. We have been told that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold a new hearing on the treaty on Tuesday, November 5. We believe that this hearing marks the start of an aggressive push to ratify this dangerous UN treaty. The CRPD surrenders U.S. sovereignty to unelected UN bureaucrats and will threaten parental care of children with disabilities. Our nation already has laws to protect Americans with disabilities. This treaty is unnecessary and will hurt families by giving bureaucrats - not the child’s parents - the power to decide what is in the best interests of a child with disabilities. All 100 U.S. Senators, and especially the Senators on the Foreign Relations Committee, need to hear loud and clear that the United States must not surrender our freedom to the United Nations. The following Senators are on the Foreign Relations Committee: Democrats: Robert Menendez (NJ):     (202) 224-4744 Barbara Boxer (CA):     (202) 224-3553 Benjamin L. Cardin (MD):     (202) 224-4524 Tom Udall (NM):         (202) 224-6621 Edward Markey (MA):     (202) 224-2742 Chris Murphy (CT):     (202) 224-4041 Tim Kaine (VA):     (202) 224-4024 Jeanne Shaheen (NH):     (202) 224-2841 Christopher Coons (DE):    (202) 224-5042 Richard J. Durbin (IL):    (202) 224-2152 Republicans: Bob Corker (TN)     (202) 224-3344 Ron Johnson (WI)     (202) 224-5323 James E. Risch (ID)     (202) 224-2752 Jeff Flake (AZ)     (202) 224-4521 John McCain (AZ)     (202) 224-2235 John Barrasso (WY)     (202) 224-6441 Rand Paul * (KY) Marco Rubio* (FL) *These Senators strongly oppose the CRPD. Calls are unnecessary. Even if your senators are not on the Committee, please take a moment to call their office right now. Your message can be as simple as the following: “I urge you to oppose the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This treaty surrenders U.S. sovereignty to unelected UN bureaucrats and will threaten parental care of children with disabilities. Our nation already has laws to protect Americans with disabilities. This treaty is unnecessary and will hurt families by giving bureaucrats the power to decide what is in the best interests of a child with disabilities, not the child’s parents.” You can reach your senators by calling the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 or by clicking on your state at ParentalRights.org/States to find their contact info. You defeated the CRPD last year. We can do it again. Please call right now and please also forward this email to your friends. You can visit our CRPD page here to learn more about the treaty and you can read the text of the CRPD here. For Liberty, Michael Farris President ParentalRights.org

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Liberty Quotes - Albert Jay Nock, Christopher Hitchens, Jaron Lanier

"The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a complete conversion of social power into State power."
-- Albert Jay Nock
(1870-1945)
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"The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological.  The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the citizen could -- or should -- be the property of the state."
-- Christopher Hitchens
(1949-2011) British-American author, journalist
Source: Adam Michnik in Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
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"People have often been willing to give up personal identity and join into a collective. Historically, that propensity has usually been very bad news. Collectives tend to be mean, to designate official enemies, to be violent, and to discourage creative, rigorous thought. Fascists, communists, religious cults, criminal 'families' — there has been no end to the varieties of human collectives, but it seems to me that these examples have quite a lot in common. I wonder if some aspect of human nature evolved in the context of competing packs. We might be genetically wired to be vulnerable to the lure of the mob."
-- Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, composer, visual artist, author
Source: Beware the Online Collective, 12/27/2006
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Liberty Quotes- John Kenneth Galbraith, Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt

"The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
(1908-2006) Canadian-born economist, Harvard professor
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"If falsehood like truth had only one face, we would be in better shape. For we would take as certain the opposite of what the liar said. But the reverse of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and a limitless field."
-- Michel de Montaigne
[Michel Eyquem De Montaigne] (1532-1592) French Renaissance scholar, philosopher, writer
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"The most fluent talkers or the most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers."
-- William Hazlitt
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American Minute with Bill Federer OCT. 27 - Theodore Roosevelt - 'Wherever the Mohammedans have had complete sway...'

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American Minute with Bill Federer OCT. 27 - Theodore Roosevelt - 'Wherever the Mohammedans have had complete sway...' Theodore Roosevelt was born OCTOBER 27, 1858. His wife and mother died on Valentine's Day, 1884. Depressed, he left to ranch in the Dakotas. Returning to New York, he entered politics and rose to Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He resigned during the Spanish-American War, organized the first Volunteer Cavalry, "the Rough Riders," and captured Cuba's San Juan Hill. Elected Vice-President under William McKinley, he became America's youngest President in 1901. In 1909, Roosevelt warned: "The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming. The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us." In his book Fear God and Take Your Part, 1916, Theodore Roosevelt wrote: "Christianity is not the creed of Asia and Africa at this moment solely because the seventh century Christians of Asia and Africa had trained themselves not to fight, whereas the Moslems were trained to fight. Christianity was saved in Europe solely because the peoples of Europe fought. If the peoples of Europe in the 7th and 8th centuries, and on up to and including the 17th century, had not possessed a military equality with, and gradually a growing superiority over the Mohammedans who invaded Europe, Europe would at this moment be Mohammedan and the Christian religion would be exterminated." Get the book, What Ever American Needs to Know about the Qur'an-A History of Islam & the United States Theodore Roosevelt continued: "Wherever the Mohammedans have had complete sway, wherever the Christians have been unable to resist them by the sword, Christianity has ultimately disappeared. From the hammer of Charles Martel to the sword of Jan Sobieski, Christianity owed its safety in Europe to the fact that it was able to show that it could and would fight as well as the Mohammedan aggressor." Visit the American Minute store American Minute archives Watch Faith in History     News from AmericanMinute.com Get the book, There Really is a Santa Claus-The History of Saint Nicholas & Christmas Holiday Traditions http://www.iecinternational.org/  Teach English overseas! a month or a year - and be paid! - Find out MORE here  Visit the American Minute archive   Click here to shop AMERICAN MINUTE store Read the Daily Reading at: http://www.biblegateway.com/reading-plans/old-new-testament/2013//10/27 Receive the daily American Minute on your Facebook wall, Twitter feed, or RSS reader.  Get a great book and help a great cause: James Nyondo's Absolute Integrity: The Bridge to Your Destiny Please support the American Minute.   Click here to make a donation. Thank you!    American Minute is a registered trademark. Permission is granted to forward. reprint or duplicate with acknowledgement to vwww.AmericanMinute.com

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