Constitution

Elder Dallin H. Oaks testifies before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, Oct 2011

Agency, Constitution, Government, Liberty, Politics, Voluntarism, Welfare June 12, 2016

“…private sector…essential to preserving pluralism and freedom…”

“…I submit that most Americans would not have us relinquish the freedom and diversity of our vigorous private sector of charities in exchange for the assurance that the government would select and manage their functions. …That private, non-profit sector has always been an important counterweight to the powers and potentially repressive influence of governments. The private sector is essential to preserving pluralism and freedom in our nation.”

Joseph Smith Jnr.

Agency, Communism, Constitution, Government, Liberty, Politics, Religious Freedom May 15, 2016

D&C 134 “…in making laws and administering them…”

We believe that governments were instituted of God for the benefit of man; and that he holds men accountable for their acts in relation to them, both in making laws and administering them, for the good and safety of society. We believe that no government can exist in peace, except such laws are framed and held inviolate as will secure to each individual the free exercise of conscience, the right and control of property, and the protection of life.

President Hugh B. Brown

Agency, Bitesize, Constitution, Government, Liberty, Politics, Prophecy May 9, 2016

Faith in America

“I cannot leave this subject without a sincere and heartfelt prayer that the spirit of Almighty God shall be upon all men everywhere. May our…matchless Constitution, our love of freedom and liberty be noted by other nations and, insofar as they can be made applicable, be adopted by them…”

President J. Reuben Clarke, Jnr.

Constitution, Government, Liberty, Politics, Prophecy May 2, 2016

The Constitution

“In broad outline the Lord has declared through our Constitution his form for human government. Our own prophets have declared in our day the responsibility of the Elders of Zion in the preservation of the Constitution. We cannot, guiltless, escape that responsibility. We cannot be laggards, nor can we be deserters.”

Ezra Taft Benson

Agency, Communism, Constitution, Government, Liberty, Politics, Socialism March 20, 2016

Protecting Freedom—An Immediate Responsibility

Moroni raised a title of liberty and wrote upon it these words: “In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children”. Why didn’t he write upon it: “Just live your religion; there’s no need to concern yourselves about your freedom, your peace, your wives, or your children”? The reason he didn’t do this was because all these things were a part of his religion, as they are of our religion today.

President George Albert Smith

Agency, Constitution, Government, Liberty March 5, 2016

Dedicatory Prayer – Idaho Falls Temple

“As we look about in the world among the various countries we find philosophies and forms of government the effect of which is to deprive men of their free agency, but by reason of Thy timely warning to us, we know that they are not approved of Thee. Since the God of this choice land is Jesus Christ, we know that His philosophy of free agency should prevail here.”