Quotes
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When Mormonism finds favor with the wicked in this land it will have gone into the shade; but until the power of the Priesthood is gone, Mormonism will never become popular with the wicked.
J.D. 4:38~ Brigham Young -
I look forward to no distant period when this people, called Latter-day Saints, will be obliged to sustain themselves. We must prepare to gather around us every necessary of life, to make every implement we may wish to use, and to produce from the earth every grain, vegetable, and fruit that we need, and not go to any other place to buy.
J.D. 9:32~ Brigham Young -
I would like to see the people take a course to make their own clothing, make their own machinery, their own knives and their own forks, and everything else we need, for the day will come when we will be under the necessity of doing it, for trouble and perplexity, war and famine, bloodshed and fire, and insomuch that we cannot get to them, nor they to us.
Life of H.C. Kimball, p. 411~ Heber C. Kimball -
And with regard to the conduct of this people--if an angel should come here and speak his feelings as plainly as I do, I think he would say, 'O, Latter-day Saints' why don't you see, why don't you open your eyes and behold the great work resting upon you and that you have entered into? You are blind, you are stupid, you are in the dark, in the mist and fog, wandering to and fro like a boat upon the water without sail, rudder or oar; and you know not whither you are going.
~ Brigham Youngfrom J.D. 19:93
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All right, let me see if I understand the logic of this correctly. We are going to ignore the United Nations in order to make clear to Saddam Hussein that the United Nations cannot be ignored. We're going to wage war to preserve the UN's ability to avert war. The paramount principle is that the
UN's word must be taken seriously, and if we have to subvert its word to guarantee that it is, then by gum, we will. Peace is too important not to take up arms to defend. Am I getting this right?
Further, if the only way to bring democracy to Iraq is to vitiate the democracy of the Security Council, then we are honor-bound to do that too, because democracy, as we define it, is too important to be stopped by a little thing like democracy as they define it.
Also, in dealing with a man who brooks no dissension at home, we cannot afford dissension among ourselves. We must speak with one voice against Saddam Hussein's failure to allow opposing voices to be heard.
We are sending our gathered might to the Persian Gulf to make the point that might does not make right, as Saddam Hussein seems to think it does. And we are twisting the arms of the opposition until it agrees to let us oust a
regime that twists the arms of the opposition.
We cannot leave in power a dictator who ignores his own people. And if our people, and people elsewhere in the world, fail to understand that, then we have no choice but to ignore them.~ PETER FREUNDLICH -
Now we are entering times wherein there will be for all of us as Church members, in my judgment, some special challenges which will require of us that we follow the Brethren. All the easy things that the Church has had to do have been done. From now on, it's high adventure, and followership is going to be tested in some interesting ways.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
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Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
~ Steven Wright
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I can resist anything but temptation
~ Oscar Wilde
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
~ Gandhi
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In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
~ Akiro Kurosawa
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
~ Oliver Wendall Holmes
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Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
~ Unknown
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement.
~ Anthony J. D'Angelo
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Never Forget!- The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
~ Albert Einstein
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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
~ Winston Churchill
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
~ Winston Churchill
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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
~ Winston Churchill
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
~ Winston Churchill
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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
~ Winston Churchillfrom Letters from a Stoic
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
~ Winston Churchill
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
~ Winston Churchill
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When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
~ Winston Churchill
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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
~ Winston Churchill