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Gratitude to the men and women in the U.S. military

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There is a quotation variously attributed to Winston Churchill or George Orwell. Regardless of our individual politics, regardless of our beliefs about the rightness or wrongness of a particular war, the words are worth reflecting upon anew:

“We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”

Religious Liberty

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“The saints can testify whether I am willing to lay down my life for my brethren. If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a ‘Mormon’. I am bold to declare before Heaven that I am just as ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any other denomination; for the same principle which would trample upon the rights of the Latter-day-Saints would trample upon the rights of the Roman Catholics, or of any other denomination who may be unpopular and too weak to defend themselves”.

History of the Church, 5:498

Helping the Poor

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“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”

Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 – 2005

Dr. Rogers was senior pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee . Bellevue had a congregation of more than 29,000 at his retirement in 2005.

Thoughts by Abraham Lincoln

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You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

Interest and Debt

admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:59:34 +0000

J. Reuben Clark Jr., Conference Report, Apr. 1938, 102–3.

“It is a rule of our financial and economic life in all the world that interest is to be paid on borrowed money. …

“Interest never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation; it never visits nor travels; it takes no pleasure; it is never laid off work nor discharged from employment; it never works on reduced hours. … Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.”

How we Treat Others

admin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:29:35 +0000

Thought on how we treat others

by Elder Marvin J. Ashton

“If we could look into each other’s hearts and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance and care.”

Failure in the Home

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President David O. McKay declared, “No other success can compensate for failure in the home.”

(Conference Report, Apr. 1935, 116.)

Most Important Work

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President Harold B. Lee said “the the most important of the Lord’s work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own home.”

(Stand Ye in Holy Places 1974, 255)

America by Abraham Lincoln

admin — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:53:27 +0000

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and
lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
-Abraham Lincoln

Government by Thomas Jefferson

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“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the
government fears the people, there is liberty.”
-Thomas Jefferson