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        Jesus Christ 

 

The Bill of Rights

Declaration of
Independence

 

  President J Ruben Clark

1.      I have been preaching against Communism for twenty
        years.  I still warn you against it, and I tell you that we are
        drifting toward it more rapidly than some of us understand,
        and I tell you that when Communism comes the ownership
        of the things which are necessary to feed your families is
        going to be taken away from us.  I tell you freedom of
        speech will go, freedom of the press will go, and freedom
        of religion will go.  I have warned you against propaganda
        and hate.  We are in the midst of the greatest exhibition of
        propaganda that the world has ever seen.  Just do not       
        believe all you read or hear.   The elect are beingdeceived.
                                                                       
       Pres. J. Reuben Clark - CR Oct 1941

 

2.         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; and we of this church will, in order to keep the Church going forward, have more sacrifices to make, and more persecutions to endure than we have yet known.  If the conspiracy comes here it will probably come in its full vigor and there will be a lot of vacant places among those who guide and direct, not only this government, but also this Church of ours.

Pres. J. Ruben Clark - CR Apr 1944 & 1952     
ETB    CR Apr 1972

3.          Is there any one so naive as to think that things
              will right themselves without a fight?  There has
              been no more fight in us than there is a bunch of    
              sheep, and we have been much like sheep.  Freedom
              was never brought to people on a silver
              platter, nor maintained with whisk brooms and
              lavender sprays.

             And do not think that thee usurpations, intimidations, and impositions are being done to us through inadvertence or mistake; The whole course is deliberately planned and carried out; its purpose is
to destroy the Constitution and our constitutional government; then to bring chaos, out of which the new Statism with its slavery is to arise, with a cruel, relentless, selfish, ambitious crew in the saddle, riding hard with whip and spur, a red-shrouded band of night riders for despotism.  If we do not vigorously fight for our liberties, we shall go clear through to the end of the road and become another Russia, or worse. 

            Pres. J. Rueben Clark - Church News PPNS pg. 327

 

4.         Our government with its liberty and free institutions will not long survive a government trained and supervised youth.  Such a youth can be a revolutionary machine.  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 habiliments of the priesthood...we should be careful of them.   

Pres. J. Reuben Clark - Church News 6/15 1940 &

 

5.              This gigantic world-wide struggle, more and more takes on the form of war to the death.  We shall do well and wisely so to face and so to enter it.  And we must all take part.  Indeed, we all are taking part in that struggle, whether we will or not.  Upon its final issue, liberty lives or dies.

            This earth-wide conflict has taken the form of seizing without compensation from the man who has, and giving to the man who has not; of taking from the worker the fruits of his work, and giving to the idler who does not work.  It has from its very nature become an economic, uncompensated leveling downward, not upwards of the whole mass.  That this result may in one country be reached by confiscatory taxation, and in another by direct seizure, is a mere matter of method.  The results is the same.  In some countries outright seizure and confiscation are already openly and shamelessly practiced.  All is done in the name of the state, as if it were deity – as if the state, not God gives all.  Even into the field of family relationship, which, next to man’s relationship to God, is the most precious and dearest of all relationships, this modern State is thrusting its polluting hand.  In some lands this new State is robbing the parents of custody of their children, it is forbidding the parents to teach and admonish the children in the ways of righteous living; it is teaching the children that officers of State, not God, shall be looked to for a guide as to standards of life!  Into the field of religion, the holy of holies of the soul of man, this modern world State also enters, to dethrone God and exalt the State into God’s place.  This is the archest reason of them all!  For man robbed of God becomes a brute.  This sin must be felt, not told, for words cannot measure the height and breadth of this iniquity; nor can human mind encompass the punishment of those who shall commit this sin.

Pres. J. Rueben Clark - 1938 Vital Speeches

6.         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 the price of blood. 
            They must not be lost!                 

            Pres. J. Rueben Clark CN 11-20-1952 PPNS, Pg. 71

 

7.         The statement of the Lord, “I have established the Constitution” puts it in the position in which it would be if it were written in this D&C itself.  This makes the constitution the WORD OF THE LORD to us.   

Pres. J. Rueben Clark CR Apr 1935

 

8.         The great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual verses the state.  This gigantic world-wide struggle takes on the form of a war to the death.  We shall do well and wisely so to face and so to enter it.  And we must all take part.  Indeed, we all are taking part in that struggle, whether we will or not.  Upon its final issue, liberty lives or dies.  The plain and simple issue now facing us in America is freedom or slavery.  We have largely lost the conflict so far waged.  But there is time to win the final victory, if we sense our danger, and fight!

              Pres. J. Ruben Clark - Vital Speeches 1938 & 
             Church News 1949

                                                                                                                    

 

 

President Marion G. Romney

1.         In distinguishing communism ((CN: Socialism)) from the United Order, Pres. David O. McKay said that communism is Satan’s counterfeit for the gospel plan, and that it is an avowed enemy of God.  Communism is the greatest anti Christ power in the world today and therefore the greatest menace not only to our peace but to our preservation as a free people.  To the extent to which we tolerate it, accommodate ourselves to it, permit ourselves to be encircled by its tentacles and drawn to it, to that extent we forfeit the protection of the God of this land.    

Pres. Marion G. Romney - Ensign Sep 1979

 

2.       We who hold the priesthood must beware concerning
          ourselves, that we do not fall into the traps that Satan   
          lays to rob us of our freedom.  We must be careful we
          are not led to accept or support in any way, any
          organization, or cause which would jeopardize free
          agency, whether it be in politics, government, religion,
          employment, education, or any other field. It is note
          enough for us to be sincere in what we support.  We
          must be right.                

          Pres. Marion G. Romney  - CR Oct 1960

 

 

Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone

1.                     I think it is time we should all awaken!  Our concern isn’t about the flames of freedom which burn so brightly in our generation.  The concern is that in the upcoming generation, the fire has never been kindles.  Our youth have never known anything but criticism of the United States of America.  We need some faithful freedom-loving patriots who will issue forth a clear, loud trumpet call... Freedom ought to ring in the heart of every Latter-day Saint regardless of his country.

            Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone - CR Oct 1975

 

Elder Mark E. Petersen

1.         There are still those in our land to whom freedom means nothing.  There are influences and movements and groups and organizations within the borders of the U.S. which today, if they could, would rob us all of our free agency.

Elder Mark E. Petersen - CR Apr 1946

 President Hugh B. Brown

1..       The treat of communism is sinister, and its dangers are imminent.  Hundreds of millions of our fellow beings are being relentlessly imbued with the satanic ideology that religion is nothing but a tranquilizing opiate.  They seek to deprive men of physical, mental, and spiritual freedom while endowing the state with monstrous supremadc7.  This relentless indoctrination is but a continuation of the war that began when Satan’s plan of force was rejected by the Father.  We live in the most dangerous period of history.  The church is the main bulwark against Communism ((CN: Socialism)).  The entire concept and philosophy of Communism ((CN: Socialism)) is diametrically opposed to everything for which the Church stands.  It destroys man’s God-given free agency.  No member of this Church can be true to his faith, nor can any American be loyal to his trust, while lending aid, encouragement, or sympathy to any of these false philosophies; for if he does, they will prove snares to his feet.    

           Pres Hugh B. Brown - CR Apr 1963 & Imp. 
           Era Jun 1966

 

 

Eliza R. Snow

I heard the prophet Joseph Smith say the time would come when this nation would so far depart from its original purity, its glory, and its love fore freedom and its protection of civil rights and religious rights, that the Constitution of our country would hang as it were by a thread.  He said, also, that this people, the sons of Zion, would rise up and save the Constitution and bear it off triumphantly.     

Eliza R. Snow pg. 556

 

 


     
   

 
 
 
 

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