18th of April – American Minute – Historical Events

William Brewster died 1644. His position as a leader of the Pilgrim church in England led to his imprisonment. Fleeing to Holland, he later sailed with the Pilgrims to America, signed the Mayflower Compact and was elected an elder.

16th of April – American Minute – Historical Events

1859, French historian Alexis de Tocqueville died. After nine months of traveling the United States, he wrote Democracy in America in 1835, which has been described as "the most comprehensive...analysis of character and society in America ever written."

15th of April – American Minute – Historical Events

In 1988, President Reagan said: In 1988, President Reagan said: "I believe God did give mankind unlimited gifts to invent, produce and create. And for that reason it would be wrong for governments to devise a tax structure that suppresses those gifts."

American Minute – Historical Events April 12

"If it had been left to us to determine it, we would have had no war. And, going further back to the occasion of it, we would have had no slavery. And, tracing it still further back, we would have had no evil...On both sides we are working out the will of God." ~ President Abraham Lincoln