American Minutewith
Bill Federer
He produced epic films in Hollywood for almost five decades and started Paramount Pictures.
His name was Cecil B. DeMille and he died JANUARY 21, 1959.
His best-known films include: Samson and Delilah, The Ten Commandments and The Greatest Show on Earth, for which he won an Academy Award.
At the opening of The Ten Commandments, 1956, Cecil B. DeMille stated:
"Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai...but he has never improved on God's law...
They are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law."
President Harry S Truman stated in his address to the Attorney General's Conference, February 1950:
"The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount.
The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.
I don't think we emphasize that enough these days."
Truman concluded:
"If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except for the State."
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