Quote of the Week
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.
-John Adams
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Greed, Selfishness and Overindulgence by Elder Joe J. Christensen
An LDS Conference address from April 1999. A great explanation of how we got where we are and what we need to do to return to sanity.
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I want to impress upon the minds of the Latter-day Saints not to covet that which belongs to any public institution, or that which belongs to any city, or county, or the government of the United States. Unless I have been misinformed, many people have said, speaking of the distribution by the government of supplies to the people: “Well, others are getting some, why should not I get some of it.”
- President Heber J. Grant
We here in the United States, in converting our government into a social welfare state, have ourselves adopted much of socialism. Specifically, we have to an alarming degree adopted the use of the power of the state in the control and distribution of the fruits of industry. We are on notice according to the words of the President (Lyndon Johnson), that we are going much further, for he is quoted as saying:
“We’re going to take all the money we think is unnecessarily being spent and take it from the ‘haves’ and give it to the ‘have nots.’” (1964 Congressional Record, p. 6142, Remarks of the President to a Group of Leaders of Organizations of Senior Citizens in the Fish Room, March 24, 1964.)
- President Marion G. Romney
We are placed on this earth to work and the earth will give us a living... It is not the government’s duty to support you. I shall raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against the communistic idea that the government will take care of us all, and that everything belongs to the government. . . It is wrong! No wonder, in trying to perpetuate that idea, that men become anti-Christ, because those teachings strike directly at the doctrines of the Savior. No government owes you a living. You get it yourself by your own acts—never by trespassing upon the rights of your neighbor, never by cheating him.
- President David O. McKay
The Paul Reveres in our lives may have voices too shrill, use bad grammar, ride a poor horse, and may pick the oddest hours to warn us. But the test of warnings is their accuracy, not their diplomacy. The disciple's commitment to truth must be to truth, without an inordinate concern for the method of delivery.
- Neal A. Maxwell
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
-Thomas Jefferson
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men.
- Samuel Adams
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