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     One of the largest battles in the Mediterranean occurred on October 7, 1571, off the coast of Greece. Around 275 Turkish ships squared off against 212 ships from the Holy League. The Holy League was a number of Catholic maritime countries brought together in self defense by Pope Pirus. Islamic forces had gained control of Mediterranean Sea and were burning and plundering cities and towns as far as Spain and France, killing and enslaving Christians. They now threatened Venice and Rome. As the battle for the survival of Europe hung in the balance, Don John of Austria led the Christian forces as citizens fasted and prayed the Rosary. During the battle, a sudden change in the direction of the wind favored the Christian fleet. Many miles away, before the battle had concluded, Pope Pirus in tears turned and said “The Christian fleet is victorious!" "It is not now a time to talk any more upon business; but to give thanks to God for the victory he has granted to the arms of the Christians." 

     The battle dealt a deceive blow to Turkish navel power. They lost some 210 ships (130 captured, 80 sank) and 30,000 men (15,000 Christian slave rowers chained about their galleys were freed). The Holy League lost about 50 ships and around 4500 men. The Leagues miraculous victory was credited to the Virgin Mary and intercession by God on their behalf, know as the "miracle of the rosaries." While there would be other battles to fight, Lepanto was a pivotal battle that turned the course of history and saved Christianity in Europe. For it would have been nearly impossible for countries in Europe to spread Gospel to the Americas if they had deal with the continued threat of annihilation from Moslem invaders.

Excerpt: Lepanto - Poem by C. K. Chesterton -  …It curls the blood-red crescent, the crescent of his lips, For the inmost sea of all the earth is shaken with his ships. They have dared the white republics up the capes of Italy, They have dashed the Adriatic round the Lion of the Sea, And the Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss, And called the kings of Christendom for swords about the Cross, The cold queen of England is looking in the glass; The shadow of the Valois is yawning at the Mass; From evening isles fantastical rings faint the Spanish gun, And the Lord upon the Golden Horn is laughing in the sun. …Before the high Kings' horses in the granite of Babylon. And many a one grows witless in his quiet room in hell Where a yellow face looks inward through the lattice of his cell, And he finds his God forgotten, and he seeks no more a sign … Breaking of the hatches up and bursting of the holds, Thronging of the thousands up that labour under sea White for bliss and blind for sun and stunned for liberty. …Don John of Austria Has set his people free!...  -  Download - PDF

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Saint James the Moors Slayer saved Spain

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     By the year 714, Spain had been nearly conquered by the Moslem invaders. One of the most pivotal battles was the battle of Clavijo, fought in 834 AD. The night before the battle, Ramiro I of Leon is said to have had a dream of Saint James, who said that he would join them in battle the next day. The battle cry for Spain was “St James, we will reconquer Spain” and that he did. Witnessed by many, Saint James appeared on a white horse brandishing sword. So devastating was the battle, it is said that over 60,000 Moslems were left dead on the battle field. The supernatural assistance helped the Spanish in driving back the Moslems from Christian territory. Saint James [Santiago] became known as the “Moor-slayer” for his assistance in saving Christianity in Spain [Europe]. Saint James as Spain’s patron Saint would appear in battle on numerous occasions on the side of Spain in Europe, and later in South America.

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Did God stop the French Invasion of America in 1746?

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     In 1746, word spread that a French fleet of 70 ships rapidly approached by way of the Atlantic Ocean. The menacing fleet, bristled with guns and carried 10,000 troops. Their orders:[recapture Nova Scotia & destroy Boston & New York] burn Boston to her foundations. …William Shirley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts proclaimed a Fast Day and all good citizens were to stop work, to fast and to gather in the meeting houses to pray for deliverance from the peril that approached.

     From the pulpit of the Old South Meeting-house Thomas Prince prayed before his congregation. The morning was clear and calm. People had walked to church through sunshine. “Deliver us from our enemy!” Prince implored. “Send thy tempest, Lord, upon the waters to the eastward! Raise Thy right hand. Scatter the ship of our tormentors and drive them hence. Sink their proud frigates beneath the power of Thy winds!”

    He had scarcely pronounced the words when the sun disappeared. All the church darkened. A wind shrieked so hard that the great church bell struck twice and the windows rattled. Thomas Prince paused in his prayer, both arms raised. “We hear thy voice, O Lord! We hear it! Thy breath is upon the waters of the eastward, even upon the deep. The bell tolls for the death of our enemies!” He bowed his head; when he looked up, tears streamed down is face. “Thine be the glory, Lord. Amen and amen!”

     The French attack never came. History bears witness to this fact: that a hurricane or sudden storm overcame the French fleet. Ships sank. Two thousand men died. Four thousand succumbed to a pestilential fever. The few remaining ships, half manned, limped off to the southward. There would be no French invasion of America! - Link to Web Site

Excerpt: A Ballad of the French Fleet - Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - A FLEET with flags arrayed Sailed from the port of Brest, And the Admiral’s ship displayed The signal: “Steer southwest.” For this Admiral D’Anville Had sworn by cross and crown To ravage with fire and steel Our helpless Boston Town. … Spread the tidings of dismay, I stood in the Old South, Saying humbly: “Let us pray! … The salvation of the Lord!” The heavens were black with cloud, The sea was white with hail, And ever more fierce and loud Blew the October gale. Like a potter’s vessel broke The great ships of the line; They were carried away as a smoke, Or sank like lead in the brine. O Lord! before thy path  They vanished and ceased to be, When thou didst walk in wrath With thine horses through the sea!- Download - PDF

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The Spanish Armada of 130 warships and 30,000 men, intending to invade England arrived at the English Channel. Against such an invincible fleet, "God blew and they were scattered,” thrown upon the rocks. The sinking of much the Spanish Armada on August 8, 1588, would change the power structure in Europe and would change the religious boundaries for Protestants and Catholics in North and South America. The Netherlands would finally gain their independence from Spain in 1648 with Treaty of Westphalia. It would be the Netherlands, years later at the end of the Revolutionary War, who would lend the United States funds to establish the Bank of North America. How fortuitous it was for the United States, that Britain had recently declared war on the Netherlands over an issue with shipping, and both countries now shared a common enemy, thus expediting the much need loan.

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Quotes on the Biblical Basis of Law & Government - Link to Web Page

Quotes on the Constitution - Link to Web Page

Quotes on the Education - Link to Web Page

Quotes on Debt - Link to Web Page

Quotes on Piety and Virtue - Link to Web Page

Quotes on Voting - Link to Web Page

Quotes on Liberty - Link to Web Page

Quotes on ARMS - Link to Web Page

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The Founding Fathers Dependence on God 

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“I am sure there never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition [hand of God] in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our revolution, or that they [American people] failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.”
— George Washington (1732-1799) Father of the Country, 1st President of the United States

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Benjamin Rush’s Dream

     “'What book is that in your hands?’ said I to my son Richard a few nights ago in a dream. "It is the history of the United States," said he. “Shall I read a page of it to you?” “No, no,” said I. “I believe in the truth of no history but in that which is contained in the Old and New Testaments.” “But, sir,” said my son, “this page relates to your friend Mr. Adams.” “Let me see it then,” said I. I read it with great pleasure and herewith send you a copy of it. 

     1809. Among the most extraordinary events of this year was the renewal of the friendship and intercourse between Mr. John Adams and Mr. Jefferson, the two ex-Presidents of the United States. They met for the first time in the Congress of 1775. Their principles of liberty, their ardent attachment to their country and their views of the importance and probable issue of the struggle with Great Britain in which they were engaged being exactly the same ...They met in England during the war while each of them held commission of honor and trust at two of the first courts of Europe, and spent many happy hours together in reviewing the difficulties and success of their respective negotiations. A difference of opinion upon the objects and issue of the French Revolution...

     Many precious aphorisms [truths], the result of observation, experience, and profound reflection, it is said, are contained in these letters. It is to be hoped the world will be favored with a sight of them (Adams-Jefferson letters) when they can neither injure nor displease any persons or families whose ancestors’ follies or crimes were mentioned in them. These gentlemen sunk into the grave nearly at the same time (hours of each other on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of Independence), full of years and rich in the gratitude and praises of their country, and to their numerous merits and honors posterity has added that they were rival friends.” - Download - PDF 

Excerpt: John Adams letter - “Your prophecy, my dear friend, has not become history as yet. I have no resentment of animosity against the gentleman and abhor the idea of blackening his character or transmitting him in odious colors to posterity. But I write with difficulty and am afraid of diffusing myself in too many correspondences. If I should receive a letter from him however I should not fail to acknowledge and answer it.” -  Link to Text - Web Site

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John F. Kennedy - First Inaugural Address - January 20, 1961

John F. Kennedy - First Inagural address audio - January 20, 1961

John F. Kennedy - First Inagural address text - January 20, 1961
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George Washington, God and The Battle of Boston

The Battle of Boston illustrates why George Washington and fellow patriots humbly deferred credit to God for their victories in the Revolutionary War.

In a very risky operation on the night of March 4th, 1776, Washington ordered General Thomas to move 3000 men to the base of Dorchester Heights. Under a bright moon, in full view of the British Fort, they built fortifications. A fortuitous fog rolled in over the British position as a steady breeze kept construction noise away from enemy ears. The Americans labored under the light of the moon, completing their work about three in the morning.

     At dawn, the British were amazed at the fortifications the patriots had constructed. Author William M. Thayer wrote,

The British General Howe exclaimed. “The rebels have done more in one night than my whole army would have done in months.”  …Quickly as possible General Howe began to bombard the new fortifications on Dorchester Heights. All throughout the day he cannonaded the little American army and, under the cover of bombardment, prepared to land twenty-five hundred picked men at night, and carry the Heights by storm. His guns did little damage, however through the day. Washington was present in person, encouraging the soldiers, and directing them in strengthening the fortifications.

Under the darkness of night General Howe sent twenty-five hundred of his best soldiers, in transports to capture the ‘rebel works.’ But a furious north-east storm arose, and beat upon them with such violence, that it was impossible to land. They were compelled to postpone the attack until the next night. But the storm continued, and even increased. The wind blew a gale, and the rain descended in torrents, all through the following day and night, shutting up the enemy within their quarters, and allowing the Americans time to multiply their works, and render them impregnable. ... - Article Link    - Download - PDF

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Is the sun setting on the Republic?

 At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin commenting on the painting of the sun on the back of Washington’s chair said, “I have often in the course of the session ... looked at that sun behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know it is a rising and not a setting sun.” The sun was indeed rising on the new Republic; because, She had God’s blessing and assistance behind her.

     When work at the convention had come to a complete standstill, Franklin (one of the least religious) stood requesting the addition of daily prayer. He said, “All of us who were engaged in the struggle [Revolutionary War] must have observed frequent instances of a superintending providence [God] in our favor. ….And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance? …without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel.”

     As Franklin emerged from Independence Hall the final day of the convention, he was asked by a woman, “Mr. Franklin what have you given us?” He responded, “A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it.” But have we kept it?

     What would Benjamin Franklin say today, if he could sit in Congress? Rather than statesman driven by moral Biblical principles, he would see many politicians driven by power and greed. He would see many with a sworn oath to God, to “support and defend the Constitution” with disdain for both God and Constitution. Worse, he would witness politicians working to undermine the very document fellow Founders spent weeks laboring on that hot Philadelphia summer. The document John Adams said was “the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.” He would be grieved to know it is now unread by most Americans. Franklin would be dismayed to see a society largely lacking in manners, piety and virtue. He could only conclude the sun was now setting on the Republic.

     Washington said that “It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor.” The Founding Fathers understood that divine blessings and protection could not be expected for a nation that does not acknowledge God, His laws and providence. While God and His laws still remain in hearts and minds of some Americans, too many have substituted atheistic humanism as their truth and foundation of government. Our political buildings today have become towers of Babel. As Franklin voiced at the convention, it is “In the sacred writings that, except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.” ... - Article Link      - Download - PDF

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     “Let us consider our, selves as men—freemen—Christian freemen—separated from the rest of the world, and firmly bound together by the same rights, interests and dangers. ... for posterity, to whom, by the most sacred obligations, we are bound to deliver down the invaluable inheritance; ... you may surely, without presumption, believe, that Almighty God himself will look down upon your righteous contest with gracious approbation. You will be a “band of brothers,” cemented by the dearest ties, and strengthened with inconceivable supplies of force and constancy, by that sympathetic ardor, which animates good men, confederated in a good cause. Your honor and welfare will be, as they now are, most intimately concerned; and besides, you are assigned by divine providence, in the appointed order of things, the protectors of unborn ages, whose fate depends upon your virtue. Whether they shall arise the generous and indisputable heirs of the noblest patrimonies, or the dastardly and hereditary drudges of imperious task-masters, you must determine." - Link to Web Page  

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General McClellan's Vision - McClellan's Potomac Panic

 Excerpt: “She is called on to accomplish that vast result, self-conquest; to learn that important lesson, self-control, self rule, that in the future will place her in the van of power and civilization. It is here that all the nations hitherto have failed, and she, too, the republic of the earth, had God willed otherwise, would by tomorrow’s sunset, have been a heap of stones, cast up over the final grave of human liberty. But her cries have come up out of the borders like sweet incense unto heaven. She shall be saved. Then shall peace once more be upon her, and prosperity shall fill her with joy.

“But her mission will not then be finished; for ere another century shall have gone by, the oppressors of the whole earth, hating and envying her exaltation, shall join themselves together and raise up their hands against her. But if she still be found worthy of her high calling they shall surely be discomfited, and then will be ended her third and last great struggle for existence. Thenceforth shall the Republic go on, increasing in power and goodness, until her borders shall end only in the remotest corners of the earth, and the whole earth shall beneath her shadowing wing become a Universal Republic. Let her in her prosperity, however, remember the Lord her God, let her trust be always in Him, and she shall never be confounded.” -  Download - PDF

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     "George Washington ...  in the visions of the night, the guardian angel of the Father of our country had appeared before him, in the venerated form of his mother, and, to cheer and encourage him in the performance of the momentous and solemn duties that he was about to assume, had delivered to him a suit of celestial armor."

     "Yes, gentlemen! on that shield, the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES was sculptured (by forms unseen, and in characters then invisible to mortal eye,) the predestined and prophetic history of the one confederated people of the North American Union."

     "And now the future is all before us, and Providence our guide…. The ark of your covenant is the Declaration of independence. Your Mount Ebal, is the confederacy of separate state sovereignties, and your Mount Gerizim is the Constitution of the United States. In that scene of tremendous and awful solemnity, narrated in the Holy Scriptures there is not a curse pronounced against the people, upon Mount Ebal, not a blessing promised them upon Mount Gerizim, which your posterity may not suffer or enjoy, from your and their adherence to, or departure from, the principles of the Declaration of Independence, practically interwoven in the Constitution of the United States. Lay up these principles, then, in your hearts, and in your souls - bind them for signs upon your hands, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes - teach them to your children, speaking of them when sitting in your houses, when walking by the way, when lying down and when rising up - write them upon the doorplates of your houses, and upon your gates - cling to them as to the issues of life - adhere to them as to the cords of your eternal salvation. So may your children's children at the next return of this day of jubilee, after a full century of experience under your national Constitution, celebrate it again in the full enjoyment of all the blessings recognized by you in the commemoration of this day, and of all the blessings promised to the children of Israel upon Mount Gerizim, as the reward of obedience to the law of God." -  Download - PDF 

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The Old Deluder Satan Act - 1649

    It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues, that so that at least the true sense and meaning of the original might be clouded and corrupted with false glosses of saint-seeming deceivers; and to the end that learning may not be buried in the grave of our forefathers, in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.

     It is therefore ordered that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to fifty households shall forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general, by way of supply, as the major part of those that order the prudentials of the town shall appoint; provided those that send their children be not oppressed by paying much more than they can have them taught for in other towns.  - Download - PDF

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Evacuation Day - New York City - Nov. 25, 1783 

     “A reverence for the laws is peculiarly essential to public safety and prosperity under our free constitution: should we suffer the authority of the magistrate to be violated for the sake of private vengeance, we should be unworthy of the numberless blessings which an indulgent Providence hath placed within our reach." 

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Napoleon Bonaparte - On the Divinity of Jesus Christ, exiled on Saint Helena - 1820

     “I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity...”

     “The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.”

     “Time, the great destroyer, is powerless to extinguish this sacred flame; time can neither exhaust its strength nor put a limit to its range. This is it, which strikes me most; I have often thought of it. This it is which proves to me quite convincingly the Divinity of Jesus Christ.”

        “If you do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well, then I did wrong to make you a general.” - Download - PDF 

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John Adams letter to his wife on the birth of a new Nation  

     Yesterday, the greatest question was decided, which ever was debated in America, and a greater, perhaps, never was nor will be decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, “that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, and as such they have, and of right ought to have, full power to make war, conclude peace, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which other States may rightfully do.” You will see in a few days a Declaration setting forth the causes which have impelled us to this mighty revolution, and the reasons which will justify it in the sight of God and man. ...

     I am surprised at the suddenness as well as greatness of this revolution. …But the day is past. The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, forevermore.

     You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood, and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is more than worth all the means, and that posterity will triumph in that day's transaction, even although we should rue it, which I trust in God we shall not. - Download - PDF

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What is the difference between Democrats and Republicans?

      Recently, a good friend (who is fiscally conservative, and typically votes Democratic) asked me an important question. What is the difference between Democrats and Republicans? That’s a really tough question to accurately answer, even within each party, options on issues vary greatly. As an Independent voter, my flip answer a few years ago would have been, there is not a dimes worth of difference. But that is not entirely true; there are subtle and important differences beyond the liberal, conservative labels between the two parties. After careful consideration of the question, I believe the answer comes down to one word, which I will explain shortly. The traits, and beliefs, found in some men (& women) in the Republican Party, and a few, in the Democratic Party, highlight the difference between the parties. They are also same traits, and beliefs, the founding fathers believed were in the best interest, and long term survival, of the Republic. They are also traits, and beliefs, I believe, God himself intended, and prefers, for those elected to make law (laws of man that don’t violate God’s law) on our behalf. - Download - PDF

Excerpt: George Washington - “Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue ?.... Let me …warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party …[it’s] common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. …It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another,  …It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. …in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.”

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Joan of Arc Saved France 

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     Joan of Arc is a well documented story of a young girl raised up by God, who saved France during the Hundred Years War with England. The Country had lost its pride, and her people, the will to fight. As a young girl, Joan, a devout Catholic, had visions of Saint Catherine, Margaret, and St. Michael the Archangel. They would talk to her, and give her instruction, and direction. As a teenager she could not read, or write, but was able to lead the French army to victory against the English invaders. In the course of 14 months, she was able restore much of her country back to French control. While the story of Joan of Arc from the 1400’s may not seem relevant to the American Revolution, which took place in the late 1700’s, there are many noteworthy connections, and parallels, especially to George Washington. Had God not raised up, and protected Joan of Arc, France would have likely ceased to exist as a country. If God had not reestablished France as a strong country, there would have been no French Indian war in America. If the war had never occurred, Washington would have never gotten his military training, and Britain would have not had to tax the colonies. Had Joan of Arc, through God’s assistance, not thrown off the yoke of British oppression, United States of America may have never existed as a country. - Download - PDF

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Is the United States of America a "Republic" or a "Democracy"?

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“Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
— Herman Melville (1819–1891) Author, short story writer & poet

     The United States of America was established as a “republic,” not a “democracy,” contrary to the misinformed assertions of many Americans. A democracy was considered despotism, by the founding fathers as form of government, it was universally detested. John Adams stated his sentiments clearly when he said, “remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” Alexander Hamilton said, “we are a republican government. Real liberty is never found in the despotism or in the extremes of democracy.” “Republican,” Thomas Jefferson warned us was “the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights [given by God, not government] of mankind.” 
     At the Constitutional Convention, James McHenry recorded that as members emerged from Independence Hall, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin, “Mr. Franklin what have you given us?” Franklin simply responded, “a republic, Madam, if you can keep it.” Among the founding fathers, there was no debate as to the form of government they labored so hard and sacrificed so much to establish.
     Yet today, most Americans, when asked what form of government we have in the United States, wrongly answer “democracy.” Even elected officials occupying the highest offices in the land, with an sworn oath to uphold the Constitution, say that we live in a democracy as well. Has the government we live under changed?  Words have meaning, and when we choose words, in describing the form of government that protects our God given liberties, and freedoms, words really do matter.    
     We need to ask this question; is the United States of America today, a “republic,” or a “democracy”? If the answer is a democracy, then as Vladimir Lenin stated, “socialism and democracy are inseparable” and we have now become a socialist state. If we live in a democracy, then the Founding Fathers fears of loosing the republic has finally come to pass. Then Samuel Adams words of distain were for our generation, the ones who lost the republic. “The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.” - Download - PDF

 “Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction.”

— Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States

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Fight for The Pledge of Allegiance

     

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Ronald Reagan's Evil Empire Speech - March 8, 1983

     “Yes, let us pray for the salvation of all of those who live in that totalitarian darkness — pray they will discover the joy of knowing God. But until they do, let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the Earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world. …So, I urge you to speak out against those who would place the United States in a position of military and moral inferiority. …So, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride — the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.”

“He called us the ‘Evil Empire.’ So why did you in the West laugh at him? It’s true!”
— Arkady Murashev, Moscow police chief, a leader of Democratic Russia

     Reagan may not have understood the destiny in store for him back in 1964 when his said, “You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.” His destiny, it appears  …Reagan’s anticommunist work with John Paul II would be tied to a series of messages given to three illiterate children in Fatima, Portugal in 1917, by an apparition of the Virgin Mary. The messages were given to the children at the end of WWI, years before Russia was a country.

Ronald Reagan's Evil Empire Speech - March 8, 1983
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The Lincoln Kennedy Coincidences - 100 Years apart in American history.    

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      Would God attempt to gain the attention of an entire nation, or perhaps the world, through coincidences of the lives of two great American Presidents? There are unique occurrences and coincidences in history that grab our attention, and challange our thinking, on the nature of reality. The stunning similarities in the lives of Abraham Lincoln, and John F. Kennedy, are one of those coincidences in American history that challange our thinking. The list of similarities between these two men, separated by 100 years of history have been around for many years, few have taken the time to look at their broader implications for our future. If the Lincoln-Kennedy similarities are not just a random coincidence of nature, then God, through coincidences in the lives of these great men is attempting to draw our attention for a reason, and one, that we should pay attention to. - Download List - PDF

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     “Almighty God: our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity..”

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The Crack in the Liberty Bell - a prophetic marker in time!

     Only by the divine hand of Providence or extreme coincidence could an ordinary bell made to honor the Quaker religious beliefs in God go on to become a worldwide symbol of Liberty and Freedom. While the Liberty Bell remains a symbol of the Liberties and Freedoms we cherish as a nation, few understand its history, religious background, or profound implications for the destiny of the country and perhaps the world. From the biblical inscription on its side, to its evacuation by wagon, breakdown and transfer in the center of Bethlehem and secure storage in Zion during the war, to its crack at high noon in celebration of George Washington’s birthday, it would appear that God had a plan for the bell and the country. And those gifts of Liberty and Freedom, gifts from God that rang out on July 8th of 1776 with the Declaration of Independence and the “Miracle at Philadelphia” from the Liberty Bell still reverberate to our present day. However, if we as a nation do not come to terms with God’s hand in our country’s history, then we stumble blindly into the future potentially to our peril.  …
     The gift of Liberty, and Freedom, that rang out from Independence Hall was truly a revolutionary idea in the recorded history of mankind. Forged into the Liberty Bell, and preserved in time, was a God given message that the rights of man, and blessings of Liberty come from God, not from man, or government. The truth of God’s Word that rang out across the land, “Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the inhabitants thereof,” was a message not just for the United States, but for the entire world. Even today, over two hundred and fifty years after the Liberty Bell rang out its first glory-breathed tones, Liberty still remains a revolutionary, and dangerous idea, in most countries around the world. Especially in Democracies, and in countries suffering under the yoke of oppression. As it was in the day the Liberty Bell was first hoisted up in the Independence Hall steeple, the United States stands alone as the last vestige of human Liberty left on the face of the earth. A refuge of safety, where Liberty is recognized as a gift from God, where the rights of man come from God, not from government, and where government [based on the Old and New Testament] is instituted among men to protect those rights. ... - Download Chapter - PDF

Excerpt: The inscription on the side of Independence Hall Bell from Leviticus 25:10, “Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the inhabitants thereof:” was missing an important part of the verse relating to the number 50, and slavery. The full Bible verse reads:

“And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants; [proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: KJV] it shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his family. A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you; in it you shall neither sow, nor reap what grows of itself, nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines. For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat what it yields out of the field. ‘In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property. ...You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God. ‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and perform them; so you will dwell in the land securely.’” Leviticus 25:10-13, 17-18 RSV

Beyond the odd coincidence of the timing in the death of Adams, and Jefferson, exactly on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, most citizens took little notice. … John Quincy Adams, the 6th President of the United States, made note of the “strange and very striking coincidence” of his fathers, and Jeffersons, passing. He considered very strange indeed that his father, and author of the Declaration if Independence, should have died on the documents 50th anniversary, considered biblically a Jubilee Year for the new Republic. “The time, the manner, the coincidence with the decease of Jefferson, are visible, and palpable marks, of Divine” he wrote in his diary.

Excerpt: On April 6th of 2001, “a man wielding a ...[hand-held sledgehammer] struck the Liberty Bell at least four times... leaving an imprint on the lip of the ...symbol of freedom.” A local student recounted to the AP reporter, “I just seen a man yelling out ’God lives on!’ then he just started banging on the Liberty Bell.” The man who attacked the bell at the Independence Hall Pavilion was Mitchell Guilliatt, a self-described wanderer from Nebraska. At his court hearing, he said he was motivated by the words on the bell. In ringing the Liberty Bell announcing ’God lives on!,’ Mitchell was proclaiming the source of the country’s blessing of Liberty, and Freedom. …Mitchell said, “we are all one body in Christ and God is the judge over all of us.” Guilliatt’s ringing of the Liberty Bell, announcing “God lives on” to the country was in April of the same year that the attack on the World Trade Centers, and Pentagon occurred. It was on a Friday which immediately preceded Holy Week, and Easter. In spring, specifically the month of April is considered a time of rebirth. Perhaps the real message to the country was that the United States needs a rebirth in the Son of the living God, from whom the blessings of Liberty and Freedom flow.

Was the ringing of the Liberty Bell on April, 6^th 2001, God’s last warning to the country?

Oath for American Citizens to Vote - United States of America - Proposed

Excerpt: In the United States of America, any citizen over the age of 18, and who meets their perspective state requirements, may vote in Federal elections. For natural-born citizens however, no oath “to protect and defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America against enemies foreign and domestic” is required. Natural-born citizens are not tested on their competency of American history, Constitution, Bill of Rights, government, literacy or required to be a “person of good moral character” as those applying for citizenship. An oath “to protect and defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America against enemies foreign and domestic” is required for those applying for citizenship, President, Congress, Judicial, Military, National Guard, and federal employees. 

George Washington said, “The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.” Founding Father Dr Benjamin Rush stated that, “Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.” … Truths once considered to be self-evident are no longer, and with loss of truth, and knowledge, comes loss of rights, liberty, and freedom, and eventually, loss of country. Download - PDF

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General McClellan Dream - McClellan's Potomac Panic

     

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Excerpt: Letter to his wife Mary Ellen, June 10th of 1862 - “It is again raining & has been for several hours! I fell almost discouraged - that is I would do so did I not feel that it must all be for the best, & that God has some just purpose in view through all this. It is certain that there has not been for years & years such a season—it does not come by chance. I am quite checked by it—first the Chickahominy is so swollen & the valley so covered with water that I cannot establish safe communications over it—then again the ground is so muddy that we cannot use our artillery—the guns sink up to their axle trees. I regret all this extremely—but take comfort from the thought that God will not leave so great a struggle as this to mere chance—if he ever interferes with the destinies of men & nations this would seem to be a fit occasion for it...  I do not see how anyone can fill such a position as I do without constantly forced to think of higher things & the Supreme Being. The great responsibility—the feeling of personal weakness & incompetence—of entire dependence on the will of God—a thousand circumstances entirely beyond our control that may defeat our best laid plans.”

Excerpt:  Special Orders 191 - On the morning of September 13th of 1862, an envelope containing three cigars wrapped in paper containing orders from General Lee was found lying in a field of clover, about a mile southwest of Fredrick, Maryland. It was discovered by Barton W. Mitchell from the Indiana 27th, as they rested in an area close to where the Confederate troops had been the day before. The order was addressed to Confederate General D.H. Hill, discovered around 10AM. In less than 4 hours, “Special Orders 191” later known as the “Lost Dispatch,” or “Lost Orders,” was in the hands of General McClellan. The dispatch was signed by R. H. (Robert Hall) Chilton, Assistant Adjutant-General to Robert E. Lee, dated September 9th. By further odd coincidence, General Alpheus Williams, and Lieutenant Samuel Pittman, on the Union Side had served with Chilton before the war and could verify his signature. McClellan was reported to have said, “here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobby Lee, I will be willing to go home.” He telegraphed Lincoln informing him that “I have all the plans of the rebels” …  On September 22nd, 1862, Lincoln shared with this cabinet that he was going to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. To their shock, he informed them that he had made a solemn vow to the Almighty that if God gave him victory at Antietam that he would issue the decree. Lincoln’s colleagues it was said were “stunned” by his statement, which he was asked to repeat to make sure they heard him correctly. Lincoln said that “this might seem strange,” but “God had decided the question in favor of the slaves.” Download - PDF

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God Bless the USA - I'm Proud to be an American, written by Lee Greenwood, Anonymous - Play - MP3

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America the Beautiful, written by Katharine Lee Bates, U.S. Navy Band - Play - MP3

History of the song American the Beautiful (to be added)… Download - PDF  

Oath of Citizenship - United States of America

Oath of the Military of the United States

Oath of members of Congress and Supreme Court Justices of the  United States

Oath of the office of President of the United States

Oath of the Continental Army

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The Report of Pontius Pilate, Governor of Judea; sent to August Caesar in Rome

The Report of Pontius Pilate, Governor of Judea; sent to Tiberius Caesar in Rome