There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.
Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.
An Unsatisfied Appetite for Knowledge Means Progress and Is the State of a Normal Mind.
When the husband and wife are healthy, and free from inherited weaknesses and diseases that might be transmitted with injury to their offspring the use of contraceptives is to be condemned.
There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.
The united, well-ordered American home is one of the greatest contributing factors to the preservation of the Constitution of the United States.
Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man’s free agency is a God-given gift.
If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives!
Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.
The real test of any church or religion is the kind of men it makes.
The kind of life you live, your disposition, your very nature, will be determined by your thoughts, of which your acts are but the outward expression. Thought is the seed of action.
The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God’s inspiration.
All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.
The best means of preaching the gospel is by personal contact.
Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men’s lives.
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
The two most important documents affecting the destiny of America are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Both these immortal papers relate primarily to the freedom of the individual.
This is the number one responsibility of the Latter-day Saints – to get in the struggle to preserve freedom. Everywhere that Communism succeeds, missionary work, temple work, everything the Church does, dies. Your number one responsibility is to preserve freedom.
Throughout the ages advanced souls have yearned for a society in which liberty and justice prevail. Men have sought for it, fought for it, have died for it. Ancient freemen prized it; slaves longed for it; the Magna Charta demanded it; the Constitution of the United States declared it.