Birth: September 1, 1871 Death: October 6, 1961
There is no royal road to any learning, no matter what it is. There is no royal road to any righteous living, no matter who you are or what you are. ….
Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service ne….
Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation...it is never laid….
The ravening wolves are amongst us, from our own membership, and they, more than any others, are clothed in sheep's clothing, because they wear the h….
The real long term objective of the Welfare Plan is the fulfilling of character in the members of the Church, givers and receivers, rescuing all that….
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at….
Eighteen months ago, when first I stood before you I called attention, as earnestly and seriously as I knew how, to what looked to me to be the dange….
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; l….
A mind obsessed with sex is good for nothing else..
Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual ….
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood - human blood..
That man has a spiritual body is evidenced by the account . . . given in the writings of Moses that man was created spiritually in heaven before he w….
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….
But there is one whom you do not deceive, and that is Christ, our Lord. He knows all. Personally, I have felt that nobody need keep much of a record ….
There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it..
One year ago, on this occasion, I called your attention to the abuses that had crept into the distribution of our public funds, and I urged you and p….
If the gospel is only for the learned, how few there are of us who could have any use for it..
I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned as the Lord intended us to function, ….
I say unto you with all the soberness I can, that we stand in danger of losing our liberties, and that once lost, only blood will bring them back; an….
I am not a strict constructionalist, believing that we seal our eternal progress by what we do here. It is my belief that God will save all of His ch….
Do you know that all of the money that we are spending, that the government is spending, must come from you? The government has no great pile of gold….