Topic: Politics, Matches 42 quotes.

In our stake, when I see men that become excited over politics, I have said that they are like some patients that I have had—when the fever gets to 105, I look for them to be delirious, and I pull out my thermometer and test their temperature. When it is 105 they ofttimes say things that they do not know that they are saying. So when I meet a brother who is radical and talking upon the street too loud, I reach for my thermometer, and if his political temperature is 105, I say, “Brother, you are delirious, you ought to go home for fear that somebody else will catch the contagion.”

Source: Elder Thomas D. Rees
General Conference, October 1920

Topics: Politics

. . . today government has touched our lives so intimately in all their relationships and all these governmental touchings have been so tabbed as political, that we cannot discuss anything relating to our material welfare and existence without laying ourselves liable to the charge that we are talking politics.

Source: President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.
Deseret News, “Church Section,” June 16, 1945, p. 4.

Topics: Politics

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

Source: Thomas Jefferson

Topics: Politics

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

Source: Thomas Jefferson

Topics: Politics

The Lord has made plain that we have a solemn obligation to choose good and honest men to represent us in secular governmental service. It is obvious that a man's spiritual and moral qualifications should be considered before his academic record or his oratorical ability. It is a sobering thought that whatever laws the elected enact, we are obligated then to obey. The Lord said, "And now, verily I say unto you concerning the laws of the land, it is my will that my people should observe to do all things whatsoever I command them.

"Therefore, I, the Lord, justify you, and your brethren of my church, in befriending that law which is the constitutional law of the land;

"And as pertaining to the laws of man, whatsoever is more or less than this, cometh of evil.

"I, the Lord God, make you free, therefore ye are free indeed; and the law also maketh you free.

"Nevertheless, when the wicked rule the people mourn.

"Wherefore, honest men and wise men should be sought for diligently, and good men and wise men ye should observe to uphold; otherwise whatsoever is less than these cometh of evil." (D&C 98:4, 6-10.)

Source: Elder Hartman Rector, Jr.
General Conference, October 1975

Topics: Politics

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