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"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
...As important as your obligations as a doctor, lawyer, or business leader will be, you are a human being first and those human connections with spouses, with children, with friends are the most important investments you will ever make. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not writing one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
Yes, I repeat, righteousness is an indispensable ingredient to liberty. Virtuous people elect wise and good representatives. Good representatives make good laws and then wisely administer them. This tends to preserve righteousness. An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings. The burden of self-government is a great responsibility. It calls for restraint, righteousness, responsibility, and reliance upon God. It is a truism from the Lord that “when the wicked rule the people mourn.” (D&C 98:9.)
Author: Ezra Taft Benson, Source: http://library.lds.org/nxt/gateway.dll/Magazines/Ensign/1976.h...Unless we as citizens of this nation forsake our sins, political and otherwise, and return to the fundamental principles of Christianity and of constitutional government, we will lose our political liberties, our free institutions, and will stand in jeopardy before God of losing our exaltation.
Author: Ezra Taft Benson, Source: http://library.lds.org/nxt/gateway.dll/Magazines/Ensign/1976.h...Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.
Author: Ezra Taft Benson, Source: http://library.lds.org/nxt/gateway.dll/Magazines/Ensign/1976.h...
I do not choose to be a common man. It is my right to be uncommon. I seek opportunity to develop whatever talents God gave me-not security. I do not wish to be kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any earthly master nor bend to any threat. It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid; to think and act myself, enjoy the benefit of my creations and to face the world boldly and say- 'This, with God's help, I have done.' All this is what it means to be an American.
Author: Ezra Taft Benson, Source: General Conference, April 1969Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God’s. When we direct our pride toward God, it is in the spirit of “my will and not thine be done.” As Paul said, they “seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.”
Author: Ezra Taft Benson, Source: "Beware of Pride," General Conference, April, 1989 I believe that there are some pundits out there that are hoping I'll distance myself from my church so that'll help me politically. And that's not going to happen.
Author: Mitt Romney, Source: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/POLITICS_AND_RELIGION?S...Science is a fluid thing, it's not set in concrete.
Author: Charles Haas, Titanic International Society, Source: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2007-07-31-ca...There is no such thing as destiny. There are only different choices.
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